THE SCIENCE OF THE
STARS.
BY-
ALFRED J. PEARCE.
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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.— Introduction. —The Science of
the Stars.—The Ancient System of Astrology.
—The Modem System of Astronomy.—The
Pythagorean (or Copemican) System of
Astronomy.—The Ptolemaic System.—Flam-
stead and Astrology.—Sir David Brewster on
Astrology.—Mr. R. A. Proctor on Astrology.—
M. Lenormant’s Idea of the Origin of
Astrology.—Kepler’s Definition of Aspects.—
Religion and Astrology.
CHAPTER II.— Mundane Astrology. — The
Vernal Ingress.—On Casting a Figure of the
Heavens.—Definition of the Twelve Houses.—
General Influences of the Planets.—Diagram
of the Winter Solstice, 1881.
CHAPTER III.— Mundane Astrology Con¬
tinued.—The Transits of the Superior Planets
through the Signs of the Zodiac.—Claudius
Ptolemy’s description of the familiarity be¬
tween the Signs and certain Regions of the
Earth.—Transits of Saturn through Aries,
from 1290 to 1821.—Transits of Jupiter
through Aries, from 896 to 1880.—Transits of
Uranus through Gemini .
CHAPTER IV.— Mundane Astrology Con¬
tinued.—The Progress of the Fixed Stars
through the Signs of the Zodiac.—The Bull’s
North Horn and the Plague and Fire of
London in 1665-6.—Nostradamus's Prediction
of the Fire of London.—Regulus in Leo.
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8—15
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21—23
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER V. — Mundane Astrology Con- page.
tinued.—Eclipses of the Sun and Moon.—The
Battle of Isandhlwana.—Diagram of the Solar
Eclipse at Cape Town, January 22nd, 1879.—
The Lunar Eclipse at Washington, April 10th,
1865, and the termination of the Civil War
in America.—The Lunar Eclipse of July 12th,
1870, and the Franco-German War.—The
Lunar Eclipse of February 27th, 1877, and
the Russo-Turkish War.—General Effects of
Eclipses.—Cardan’s Aphorisms . 24—28
CHAPTER VI.— Mundane Astrology Con¬
tinued.—Great Conjunctions.—The most im¬
portant Conjunctions of the Superior Planets.
—The Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter in
Capricornus, March 1st, 1877, and the Russo-
Turkish War.—The Conjunction of Mars and
Saturn, June 30th, 1879, at Cabul. 29—3l
CHAPTER VII.— Comets as Portents. —The
Comet of 1870, and the Franco-German War.
—Donati’s Comet and the War of 1859.—
Comet B 1881, and the Death of President
Garfield. 32—33
CHAPTER VIII. — Astro-Meteorology. —
Astronomical Causes and Weather-changes,—
Kepler’s Testimony as to the Reality of
Planetary Influence.—The Aspects of the
Planets affecting Weather-changes .. 34—38
CHAPTER IX. — Astro-Meteorology Con¬
tinued.—Meteorological Table of, the Sun.—
Meteorological Tables of the Planets.—The
Major and Minor Aspects of the Sun and
Planets. 39—43
CHAPTER X.—How to Predict the Weather.
—Rules for predicting the Weather.—Table
of Phenomena for July, 1881.—Conjunctions
of Mars and Saturn attended by great Storms
in 1881,1879,1877,1875, and 1861.—The great
Snowstorm of January, 1881.—The “ Royal
Charter ” Gale.—The great Crimean Hurri¬
cane.—Great Thunderstorms.—The Fall of
Rain.—Violent Hailstorms.—Cardan’s Apho¬
risms .. ,,jQoO 44—54
CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER XI. — Earthquakes. — Aristotle’s page.
Observations on Earthquakes.—M. Barthe-
lemy St. Hilaire’s misconception of Aristotle’s
meaning.—Morrison’s Rules for foretelling
Earthquakes.—Great Earthquake at Cumana,
1853, and the Planetary Positions thereat.—
M. Delaunay’s View of Planetary Influence
on Earthquakes.—The great Earthquake at
Lisbon.—The Earthquakes at Chios, 1881.—
The Earthquake-producing signs Taurus and
Scorpio.—The Electrical Theory of the Cause
of Earthquakes . 55—64
CHAPTER XII. — Genethlialogy. —Planetary
Influence upon Individuals. — Lord Bacon’s
Advocacy of an Astrologia Sana.—Kepler’s
Practice of Genethliacal Astrology.—Symbols
used in Astrology . 65—67
CHAPTER XIII.— On Casting the Hoboscope.
—The True Moment of Birth.—Process of
Calculation of R.A. of Meridian at Birth.—
Diagram of H.M. Queen Victoria’s Horoscope. 68—71
CHAPTER XIV.— On Forming a General
Judgment op a Nativity. —The probable
Duration of Life.—Ptolemy’s Aphorisms.—
Cases illustrative of Ptolemy’s Aphorisms.—
Goethe’s Birth.—Newton’s Birth.—Dryden’s
Forecast of the fate of his son Charles.—The
Hylegliacal (Vital) Places.—Blindness.—
Surgical Operations. 72—85
CHAPTER XV.— On the Mind and Disposi¬
tion. —Influence of the Planets on the mind
and disposition.—Insanity.—Cases illustra¬
tive of the affliction of Mercury and the Moon
at birth predisposing to insanity. 86—95
CHAPTER XVI.— On Destiny. —The Bourbon
Family and their Horoscopes.—The Fate of
Napoleon I and Napoleon III.—Horoscope of
Napoleon III.—Symbols of a fortunate and
successful career.—Symbols of an unfortunate
destiny.—The choice of a profession or trade
aided by Astrology.—Successful Commanders
and the Configurations of Mars at their births.
—The late Lord Chief Justice.—Diagram of
the Horoscope of the late Earl Beaconsfield ... 96—10'
IV.
CONTESTS.
CHAPTER XVII.— On Marriage. —Sympathy
and love at first sight explained astrologically.
—Ptolemy’s Aphorisms in regard to matri¬
monial felicity.—Goethe’s Marriage.—Astro¬
logical Signs of marriage and celibacy.
CHAPTER XVIII.— On Directions. —Primary
Directions described.—Primary Directions in
the Nativity of H.M. Queen Victoria.—Horo¬
scope of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
CHAPTER XIX.— On Solar Revolutions.—
Solar Revolution for 1870, of the late Emperor
of the French .
CHAPTER XX.— Horary Astrology. — The
Origin of Horary Astrology.—Joseph’s Divining
Cup.—Planetary Hours.—Origin of the
Sabbath.—Nomenclature of the Days of the
Week.—Lilly’s Practice of Horary Astrology.
CHAPTER XXI.— Horary Astrology Con¬
tinued.—The Twelve Houses and their
Signification.—Professions, &c., ruled by each
Planet.—Table of the Houses or Chief
Dignities of the Planets.—Questions relating
to the First House of the Heavens.—Of the
Fate of a Ship—Example .
CHAPTER XXII.— Horary Astrology Con¬
tinued.—Questions pertaining to the Second,
Third, Fourth, and Sixth HouseB of the
Heavens.—Of the Recovery of Money Lent.—
Of Buying or Selling Houses, Land, Farms,
&c.—Whether an Illness will be long or
short—Crises—Example .
CHAPTER XXIII.— Horary Astrology —Con¬
tinued.—Questions relating to the Seventh,
Ninth, and Tenth Houses.—-On Marriage.—On
0 btaining E mploy ment — Example — Con¬
clusion .
Appendix. — Astrological Vocabulary.— Tables
of Houses for London, Edinburgh, Calcutta,
and New York..,.
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PREFACE.
The most ancient of all sciences—the Science of the
Stars—is but very imperfectly understood at the present
day.
Modern astronomers, while improving astronomy,
reject the ancient astrology. They accept the Pytha¬
gorean (under the title of the Copernican) system of
astronomy, they recognise the truth and importance of
Kepler’s laws, yet they reject as unworthy even of
examination the belief in planetary influence to which
Pythagoras and Kepler subscribed. The very fact that
men of such giant intellects as those two great philo¬
sophers, found, as the result of their experience and
observation, that planetary influence is exerted on the
atmosphere, etc., of the earth, should command respect
for astrology and should lead to an impartial and
thorough examination of it.
The highly educated portion of the public too often
sneer at judicial astrology as mere superstition, and
excuse themselves from any investigation of its claims
to be considered a science, on the ground that modern
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PREFACE.
astronomers reject it. They look upon it as a relic of
the bizarre superstition of the ancients, and of the
mediaeval alchemists. If authority alone could be
allowed to decide the vexed question of the truth of
astrology, it will be recognised, from the names of the
founders of modern astronomy before quoted, that the
weight of authority is decidedly in favour of astrology.
But the truth of no science can be allowed to be decided
by authority alone. Hence the author offers the
intelligent public the following epitome of astrology,
which is written in a perfectly clear manner, free from
abstruse terms, and free from the superstitious nonsense
too often to be found in astrological literature.. This
work is based on the results of an impartial and most
searching examination of the subject, extending over
twenty-two years.
The meteorological observations of the author, and
those of some friends of his who have investigated the
subject, lead to the conclusion that no real progress
will ever be made in forecasting weather until planetary
influence shall be recognised.
In like manner, experience shows that an examination
of astrology throws a flood of light on mental gifts, on
the subject of insanity, and, to a certain extent, on “ the
ills that flesh is heir to.”
This work is, then, offered to the world with the sole
desire to spread a knowledge of divine truth, and to open
up a view of one of the harmonies of the universe.
London: November 23, 1881.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
"In natural science there is one language universally
intelligible, the language of facts; it belongs to nature, and
it is as permanent as the objects of nature.”—S ib Humphry
Davy.
The Science of the Stabs is at once the most exalted
and the most fascinating of all sciences. It was formerly
designated Astrology —from ourrrip (aster), a star, and
Myos (logos), reason, logic, or information—and it com¬
prised the foretelling of the return of the planets, the
eclipses of the Sun and Moon, tempests, droughts, in¬
undations, earthquakes, the rise and fall of nations, wars,
revolutions, the destinies of remarkable men, etc. It
was this science which Dante declared to be “the
highest and noblest, and without defect.” It was this
science in which Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Anaximander,
Democritus, Thales, Eudoxus, Hippocrates, Galen, Nigi-
dius Figulus, Kepler, Lord Bacon, Dryden, and many
other great men, were skilled. The modern system of
Astronomy —from atmjp and vopof (nomos) a law—is
not so comprehensive, being limited to the study and
demonstration of the laws that govern the motions of
the heavenly bodies. Among the ancient Hebrews the
astrologer was called Ash-Phe, literally “the mouth¬
piece of the star,” because he interpreted what he con¬
ceived to be the import of the configurations of the
stars— Kara Myov, in conformity with reason.
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
It is the common cant of the day to say that the
Copernican system of astronomy overthrew the ancient
system of astrology, and even Mr. R. A. Proctor repeats
this assertion. A little reflection will show that this is
an utterly mistaken idea. Pythagoras—whose giant in¬
tellect has, perhaps, never been equalled,—who antici¬
pated the discoveries of Copernicus, accepted the belief
in astrology prevailing in his day. Kepler—“ the legis¬
lator of the heavens ”—avowed his belief in astrology,
and constantly practised it. Lord Bacon accepted it,
under the designation of Astrologia Sana, as a part of
physics. Mr. Proctor endeavours to discount the value
of Bacon’s authority in its favour on the plea that he
was a Ptolemaist. “ Ptolemy’s order, false as it was,
enabled observers to give a plausible account of the
motions of the Sun and Moon, to foretell eclipses, and
to improve geography.” 1 Inasmuch as the Ptolemaic
system of astronomy pourtrayed the actual phenomena
of the heavens as they appear to observers on the earth,
it follows that his astrology is quite as applicable to
modern and improved astronomy as to his own; for the
heavenly bodies act upon the earth, its atmosphere, and
(directly or indirectly) on mankind, according to their
apparent or geocentric positions. The great .distances
of the planets—as assigned to them in the Newtonian
system—must not be allowed to prejudice our minds
against the belief in “ planetary influence.” Astrono¬
mers teach that each planet is always attracting its
fellows away from the average path round the Sun.
It is true that as astronomy was improved, and as
astronomers received State appointments, astrology de¬
clined. This coincidence was not due to any want of
1 Spectacle de la Hature.
INTRODUCTION.
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truth in an ostrologia sana; it was the result of the
corruption of astrology by the mediaeval astrologers who
degraded it into a system of mere fortune-telling; and
the astonishing advance of other sciences opening up
lucrative pursuits for clever men, astrology was aban¬
doned to the illiterate. Nevertheless, it is on record
that the first astronomer-royal, Flamstead, practised and
believed in astrology, for he selected an auspicious
moment for the laying of the foundation-stone of Green¬
wich Observatory (when Jupiter, “ the greater fortune,"
was rising), and a map of the heavens drawn by his own
hand may be seen among his MSS., carefully pre¬
served at the Royal Observatory. 2 Some learned
astronomer, in evident ignorance of its meaning, has
pencilled in the words “ risum teneatis amici."
It is also on record that Newton became attracted to
the study of mathematics and astronomy by the contem¬
plation of an astrological figure of the heavens.
The astronomers of the present day appear to know
little or nothing of astrology. The late Sir David
Brewster said that—“ In attempting to reduce astrology
to the form of a science, there can be little doubt that
the inductive method was never followed.” Mr. Proctor
has expressed his impression that the ancient astrologers
“ guessed the influences of special planets from colour,
appearance, motion, etc., and having no real knowledge
to check them, they formulated what they supposed to
be a system.’’ These utterly mistaken notions are com¬
pletely refuted by the disclosures of the cuneiform in¬
scriptions, which prove that the phenomena of the
weather were observed and recorded together with the
’ A fac simile of this map is given in “ The Text-Book of
Astrology,” vol i., p. 20.
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
configurations of the heavenly bodies. M. Lenormant
says of the Chaldasans: “On nota les coincidences qui se
produisaient entre les positions ou les apparences des
astres et les evenements et l’on crut trouver dans ces
coincidences la clef des provisions de l’avenir. Des lors,
l’astrologie etait fondOe.” It is patent to every careful
student of the subject that astrology was based upon a
long series of careful observations. Much of the pre¬
judice against astrology arises from the prevalent mis¬
conception as to the meaning of the word “aspect” as
applied to the stars. Here is Kepler’s definition:
“ Aspectus est angulua a radiis luminosis binorum planet-
arum in terra formatus, efficax ad stimulandum naluram
sublunarem ’'—“An aspect iB an angle formed on the
earth by the luminous beams of two planets, of strength
to stir up the virtue of sublunary things.” Thus when
the planet Jupiter is 90° distant in geocentric longitude
from the Sun, it is said to be in square aspect with the
Sun, as on the 17th of August, 1881— marked in the
Nautical Almanac as 1/ □ ©.
Now that observation has shown the sun-spot period,
the true magnetic declination period, and that of the
auroral displays to be 11.9 years, which is the same as
Jupiter’s anomalistic year or the time that elapses
between two perihelion passages 3 ; now that a con¬
nexion is demonstrable between the fluctuations of the
annual death-rate and the position of Jupiter in his
orbit 4 ; now that the maxima and minima of earth¬
quakes are found to synchronise with certain relative
5 Nature, Jan. 31, 1878, letter from Mr. B. G. Jenkins,
F.R.A.S.
* Statistical Society’s Journal, March 1879, article by Mr.
Atkins.
INTRODUCTION.
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positions of Jupiter and Saturn, as shown by M. Delau-
ney, of the French Academy—some astronomers begin
to recognise the fact that there was a substratum of
truth in the despised system of astrology. The ap¬
proach of four large planets to their perihelia in the
period 1880-1885, a coincidence that has not happened
for five hundred years, has so over-excited the imagina¬
tions of some astronomers, ignorant of astrology, that
the most extravagant and alarming predictions have
been made by them as to the probable effects on the
earth, its atmosphere, and its inhabitants. Any effects
traceable to the perihelion passages of the larger planets
must be due to their being nearer than when in any
other parts of their orbits, and would go to prove that
such planets are always acting magnetically and elec¬
trically, more or less.
Observers note repeated coincidences between certain
“aspects” of the heavenly bodies and great events;
and, by an empirical law, we may foretell that when
similar configurations shall recur, similar events will
coincide or immediately follow; but in the present state
of our knowledge, we cannot explain the modus operand.li
—“ causa latel, res est notissima,” the cause is hidden,
the effect most plain.
Faraday said: “The philosopher should be a man
willing to listen to every suggestion, but determined to
judge for himself. He should not be biassed by ap¬
pearances, have no favourite hypothesis, be of no school,
and in doctrine have no master. He should not be a
respecter of persons but of things. Truth should be
his primary object If to these qualities be added in¬
dustry, he may indeed hope to walk within the veil of
the temple of Nature.’’
While prejudice is allowed to bar the way of scien¬
tific inquiry into the vexed question of planetary in-
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SCIENCE OP THE STAES.
fluence, the modern philosopher will never “ walk within
the veil of the temple of Nature.” Those who have cast
aside their prejudices, and have investigated the subject,
have found much truth in it, and great encouragement
to prosecute their inquiry with the utmost diligence.
To one who is utterly unacquainted with astrology, and
yet speaks or writes concerning it in an abusive and
disrespectful manner, we commend the rebuke adminis¬
tered by Newton to Halley, “ I have studied these
things; you have not.”
No religious scruples should deter the student from
at least the perusal of this little volume. Astrologia sana
has nothing whatever in common with palmistry, card¬
shuffling, spirit-rapping, or witchcraft. It does not lead
towards atheism, fatalism, &c. Lord Bacon said:—
“ There is no fatal necessity in the stars, and this the
more prudent astrologers have allowed." Placidus, the
Italian monk, author of the system of genethliacal
astrology which bears his name, declared that he was
“ wholly of the opinion that every man is the author of
his own fortune, next, however, to the Divine decree,
according to the prophet, ‘My lot is in thine hand.’”
The Bible 5 is replete with astrology: Abraham, Job,
Jacob, Moses, Joseph, David, Solomon, Daniel, and
Ezekiel practised it; Joseph even practised divination
(horary astrology), a branch rejected by Bacon and
several eminent astrologers. A Cardinal of the Catholic
Church was the author of a treatise on astrology con¬
taining an Ephemeris for several years, a copy of which
may be seen at the British Museum. Melancthon up¬
held astrology. It is said that Luther condemned it—
perhaps owing to the very evil horoscope assigned to
« See “Veritas,” by H. Melville; and the Anacalyptis, by
Godfrey Higgins.
INTRODUCTION.
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him by the great Cardan. Phrenologists will under¬
stand that Melancthon’s judgment on a scientific sub¬
ject is entitled to far greater weight and respect than
Luther’s.
All ancient religions had a common basis in astro¬
logy. The ancients believed that the planets (or pla¬
netary angels) had under their special care the affairs of
mankind. Phornutus (Ilspi Oupavos ) says: “For the
ancients took those for gods whom they found to move
in a certain and regular manner, thinking them to be
the causes of the changes of the air and the conserva¬
tion of the universe. These then are gods (Scot), which
are the disposers (Serr^ef) and formers of all things.”
The first verse of Genesis reads, literally rendered,
thus: “In the first place God put together the original
matter of the disposers [or planets], and the original
matter of the earth.”
The adoption by Moses of the astrological emblems of
the Magi and the Egyptians clearly proves the identity
of his religion with that of the Magi before it became
corrupted.
The 19th Psalm refers to the “rule,” or more cor¬
rectly the “ line,” of the planets which “ has gone out
through all the earth.”
In Matthew xxiv., 29, and in Mark xiii., 25, the
Saviour alluded to the “ powers ” (or virtues) in the
heavenly bodies, or stars, &c.
With these introductory remarks we will now proceed
to delineate the various branches of judicial astrology,
leaving it to the good judgment of the intelligent reader
whether it deserves further and more extended examina¬
tion and study.
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CHAPTER II.
MUNDANE ASTROLOGY.
“ Speculataque longe
Deprendit tacitis dominantia legibus astra,
Et totum altema mundum ratione moveri,
Fatorumque vices certis diseemere signis.”
Maniuttb.
Mundane Astrologt Telates to the forecasting of the
great events and changes of the world—wars, revolu¬
tions, etc.
To this end several methods are employed:—1. By
casting “ figures of the heavens ” for the moment of the
Sun’s entry into the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra,
and Capricomus). 2. By casting figures of the heavens
for Eclipses of the Sun and Moon—in countries where
they are visible. 3. By marking the transits of the
superior planets (Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune) through the various “ signs of the zodiac.”
4. By watching the progress of certain eminent fixed
stars through the signs of the zodiac. 5. By the
observation of comets. Let us examine these several
methods in detail.
I. The entry of the Sun into Aries is the commence¬
ment of the astrological year (March 20th). It is
remarkable that the Christian era is connected with the
epoch of the vernal equinox in Aries (the sacrificial
ram, or lamb). At the British Museum there is a
colossal figure of a Bull, with the face of a man, with
wings; similar figures are found in India, Assyria, and
Egypt, and sculptured on the ancient temples. It
MUNDANE ASTROLOGY.
9
represents the Sun at the opening of the year (vernal
equinox). This carries us back more than six thousand
years; it is more than four thousand years since the
vernal equinox left Taurus and entered Aries. During
the 2,160 years that the vernal equinox fell in the sign
Gemini, the Sun was named and worshipped Buddha;
when it fell in Aries, the Sun was worshipped as
Krishna. The Cherubim mentioned in the Book of
Ezekiel are simply the faces of the four Beings who
were at the four cardinal points, beginning with the Sun
in Taurus, viz. the ox, the lion, the eagle, and the man 1
(«,£,riband 55).
Claudius Ptolemy, who wrote the Tetrabiblos, or Four
Books of the Stars, said : “ The beginning of the whole
zodiacal circle (which in its nature as a circle can have
no other beginning or end, capable of being determined)
is, therefore, assumed to be the sign of Aries, which com¬
mences at the vernal equinox.” Thus, the “ precession
of the equinoxes ” cannot affect astrology. Ptolemy
considered the virtues of the constellations of the zodiac
distinctly from those of the spaces they occupied. He
expressly and repeatedly declared that the point of the
vernal equinox is the beginning of the zodiac, and that
the thirty degrees immediately following it ever retain
the same virtue as that which he attributed to Aries,
although the stars forming Aries may have left those
degrees. It was an accepted belief for ages that the
world was created at the vernal equinox. Hence the
astrological belief arose that the vernal equinox was the
“ revolution ” of the world.
A map of the heavens is, then, drawn for the moment
of the Sun’s ingress into Aries (for the seat of govern¬
ment). If a “ fixed ” sign ( Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, or
1 See a picture of them in Parkhurst’s Heb. Lex.
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
Aquarius) ascend thereat, the configurations are believe
to remain in force for the ensuing twelve months. If a
“common” sign ( Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces)
ascend, the figure is held to rule for six months, and
another must be drawn for the entry of the Sun into
Libra (autumnal equinox). If a “ moveable ” sign
(Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricomus) ascend, the figure
is held to retain influence but for three months, and a
map must be drawn for the summer solstice, autumnal
equinox, and winter solstice. Modern astrologers do
not observe these instructions; they cast a figure for
each of the four quarters of the year. The new or full
moon nearest the vernal equinox is also believed to pre¬
signify events about to happen.
Before proceeding further, it will be well to describe
the most approved method of casting a “ figure of the
heavens.” It is usually drawn in the form of a circle,
which is divided into twelve “ mansions” or “ houses.”
It has two hemispheres, the upper diurnal and the lower
nocturnal. It has two other grand divisions, effected
by the line drawn from the upper meridian (where the
Sun is at noon) to the lower (where the Sun is at mid¬
night). These four divisions are the east, south, west,
and north angles, respectively. The following diagram
will show at a glance the signification attached to the
several “ houses.”
The inner circle represents the earth, the outer the
heavens. The double line drawn from E. to W. is the
horizon line; the line from S. to N. is drawn from the
upper to the lower meridian. Each quadrant is sub¬
divided into three equal parts. The ascendant is the
first house, and the other houses are numbered in rota¬
tion as shown in the diagram. The Sun, in his daily
course, passes through the 12th, 11th, 10th, 9th, 8th,
and 7th houses; in his nightly course, through the 6th,
MUNDANE ASTROLOQY.
11
5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st houses. The 1st, 4th, 7th,
and 10th houses are the “angle#;” a planet located in
any one of them, at a Solar ingress, an eclipse, a great
conjunction, or a birth, is considered to be very power¬
ful. The order of importance of the various houses
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is usually stated as follows: 1st, 10th, 7th, 4th, 11th,
9th, 5th, 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 6th, and 12th. Experience
shows the first house (ascendant) to be most powerful,
and the upper meridian (10th) next; then follow the
7th and 4th. It is not according to reason that the
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
12th house should be considered the weakest of all.
Next after the angles, the diurnal houses (12th, 11th,
9th, and 8th) should be considered the most powerful.
The rationale of dividing the heavens is fully considered
in the “ Text-Book of Astrology,” vol. i.
Reference to the vernal ingress of 1880 (the figure
was given at p. 86 of Urania for March 1880), which
ook place at 5 h 13 m a.m. (G.M.T.) of March 20th, will
show that the planet Mars was exactly on the lower
meridian (and in opposition to the tenth house). The
general election immediately following resulted in the
defeat of the Conservative Government, and Lord
Beaconsfield resigned in April. At Cabul Mars was rising
at that ingress; fighting in Afghanistan was renewed.
At the winter solstice of 1879 (December 22nd,
4 h 16 m a.m., London), Mars was setting (in the sign
Taurus). The first symptoms of that reign of terror in
Ireland which unfortunately obtained in 1880 and 1881,
appeared in the first quarter of 1880.
Many similar striking coincidences could be cited.
While recognising the fact that the ascendant relates to
the public health and the condition of the people; the
tenth house to the Monarch or Government; the seventh
house to war (to a certain extent) and public enemies ;
and the fourth to the landed interest, and the enemies
of the Government in power; the signification attached
to the remaining houses requires confirmation, and may
be fairly questioned.
The general character of the influences ascribed to
the planets, in this connection, may be summarised
thus:—
Jupiter (1/) is the harbinger of peace, prosperity,
reform, justice, mercy, joviality, honour, and health.
Venus (?) is the harbinger of mirth, love, feasting,
pleasure, and prosperity.
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Mars () is the herald of war, strife, commotion,
and bloodshed. In the ascendant and “strong” in
Aries, Scorpio, or Capricornus), the red planet is held
to presage victory for the nation concerned. In the
seventh, powerful enemies, danger of war, and many
troubles. In the tenth, heavy taxation, difficulties for
the Government, and the ascendancy of martial men and
measures. In the fourth house, mischief by fire, defeat
of the Government, loss to farmers, and danger to miners.
War generally follows when Mars is retrograde at an
ingress or an eclipse, and afflicting the Sun or Moon.
Saturn ( 1? ) is the significator of woe, misery, sick-
ness, melancholy, etc. In the fourth house (except when
in Capricornus ) loss to farmers through bad crops, etc.
Mercury (?) is the ruler of science, literature, art,
travelling, merchandise, etc. The influence of this
planet is convertible, being good when configurated with
Jupiter or Venus, and evil when with Mars, Saturn, or
Uranus.
Uranus (1$) is the significator of strange, sudden,
and extraordinary events; when configurated evilly
with Saturn or Mars, of explosions and strange acci¬
dents ; when evilly configurated with Venus or the
Moon, of much evil to women and young girls.
Neptune (tp) is but little understood. This distant
planet is believed to be the significator of great crises—
such as usually result in benefits to the countries
affected.
The Sun (©) is held to be the general significator of
emperors, empresses, kings, queens, princes, princesses,
presidents of republics, and all who are in supreme
power and authority. Hence, when the Sun is angular
in the ascendant or midheaven, free from affliction by
the malefics and supported by the benefics, the pros-
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perity, honour, and renown of the monarch or ruler are
pre-signified. But, when in the descendant, the 4th,
6th, 8th, or l‘2th house, and afflicted by Mars, Saturn,
or Uranus, evil to the ruler is threatened.
The Moon ( 5 ) being held to be the significator of
the common people, her presence in the ascendant or
10th house, unafflicted, is held to be of fortunate omen
for the people; whereas her presence in the 7th, 4th,
6th, 8th, or 12th house, afflicted, is believed to be the
precursor of great evils for the public.
Let us now proceed to cast a figure of the heavens
for the ingress of the Sun into Capricornus (winter
solstice), 1881. Upon calculation, it is found that the
ingress takes place at 4 h p.m. of December 21st. To
find the right-ascension of the meridian we take the
h. m. b.
Sidereal time at noon . 18 0 46
And add the time elapsed. . 4 0 0
Also the difference between 1 0 0 40
mean and sidereal time for 4 h /
R. A. of Meridian. = 22 1 26
A “ Table of Houses for London," such as that given
in the “ Appendix,” shows that when this amount of
right-ascension is in the meridian, the 3° of the sign
Cancer is in the ascendant; and the longitudes of the
various other houses. It will now be necessary to
reduce, by proportion, the geocentric longitudes of the
Sun, Moon, and planets to the hour of the ingress; and
when this shall be effected, and their symbols marked
in the proper places, the figure will be complete.
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FIG. 2.
This is a very significant figure, for Mars is rising,
retrograde, and in opposition to the Moon. Moreover,
Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune are retrograde in Taurus;
Uranus is stationary in the sign Virgo, and in square
(90°) aspect with Mercury and Venus. These positions
pre-signify violence in the land (and especially in Africa,
ruled by Cancer, the sign occupied by Mars), mis¬
fortunes, and accidents.
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II. The transits of the superior planets through the
signs of the zodiac. The familiarity of the inhabited
earth with the various signs of the zodiac was described
by Ptolemy in his Tetrabiblos, Book n., chap. 3.
No alteration has been found necessary, in the opinion
of modern astrologers; and the countries that have been
discovered and populated since Plotemy’s day, have (by
observation) been found to have familiarity with certain
signs. It is a remarkable fact that Britain and Germany
are ever found to be influenced by the transits of the
superior planets through Aries; in like manner, France
and Italy are still found to be affected by Leo, India and
Greece by Capricormis. Coincidences repeated through
many centuries—history repeating itself—impress the
mind, and lead to the conviction that there is some
mysterious connection between them. No country
prospers during the period of Saturn’s stay in its
“ ruling sign; ” while, on the other hand, the transits of
Jupiter coincide with fortunate events.
The relationship of the several signs of the zodiac
with the countries and chief cities of the world is thus
stated by modern astrologers:—
Aries influences Britain, Germany, Denmark, Lesser
Poland, Burgundy, Palestine, Syria, or Judea. Towns:
Naples, Capua, Florence, Verona, Padua, Brunswick,
Marseilles, Cracow, Saragossa, and Utrecht.
Taurus influences Persia, Media, Georgia, the Cau¬
casus, Asia Minor, the Archipelago, Cyprus, Poland,
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Ireland, and White Russia. Towns: Dublin, Mantua,
Leipsic, Parma, Rhodes, and Palermo.
Gemini relates to the north-east coast of Africa, to
Lower Egypt, Flanders, Lombardy, Sardinia, Brabant,
and Belgium; also the West of England, and the United
States of North America. Towns: London, Versailles,
Metz, Lovaine, Bruges, Cordova, and Nuremberg;
perhaps Melbourne.
Cancer rules Northern and Western Africa, Scotland,
Holland, and Zealand. Towns: Amsterdam, Constanti¬
nople, Cadiz, Genoa, Venice, Algiers, Tunis, York, New
York, St. Andrews, Berne, Milan, Lubeck, Vincentia,
Magdeburg, and Manchester.
Leo rules France, Italy, Sicily, the Alps, Bohemia,
Chaldea, the ancient Phoenicia, or the northern parts of
Roumania. Towns: Rome, Bath, Bristol, Taunton,
Damascus, Prague, Ravenna, Philadelphia, and pro¬
bably Portsmouth.
Virgo influences Turkey in Europe and Asia; Baby¬
lonia, Assyria; all the country between the Tigris and
Euphrates; Greece, Thessaly, Corinth, and the Morea;
the island of Caudia, Croatia, and Switzerland. Towns:
Heidelberg, Jerusalem, Paris, Reading, Lyons, Toulouse,
and probably Cheltenham.
Libra relates to the borders of the Caspian, part of
Thibet; China, especially the northern provinces;
Japan, parts of India, Austria, Savoy, Upper Egypt,
and ancient Libya. Towns: Antwerp, Frankfort, Lisbon,
Spires, Fribourg, Vienna, Gaeta, Charlestown, and
Piacenza.
Scorpio rules Fez, Morocco, Algiers, Barbary, Judea,
Syria, and Cappadocia; Norway and Jutland, Bavaria,
Valentia, and Catalonia. Towns: Frankfort-on-the-
Oder, Liverpool, and Messina.
Sagittarius influences Spain, Tuscany, lower Italy
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(especially Tarento), that part of France between La
Seine and La Garonne to Cape Finisterre, Arabia
Felix, Dalmatia, Sclavonia, Hungary, and Moravia.
Towns: Cologne, Avignon, Buda, Narbonne, Toledo,
Rotenburg, and Stutgardt; probably Sunderland.
Capricornus rules India, Afghanistan, the modern
Punjaub, Thrace, Macedonia, the Morea and Illyria,
Bosnia, Bulgaria, Albania, Styria, Romandiola in Italy,
the south-west of Saxony, Hesse, Mexico, and Mecklen¬
burg. Towns: Oxford, Prato in Tuscany, Branden¬
burg, Tortona, Canstanz, and perhaps Brussels.
Aquarius rules Arabia the Stony, Red Russia,
Prussia, part of Poland, Lithuania, Tartary, part of
Muscovy, Circassia, Wallachia, Sweden, Westphalia,
Piedmont, Azania, and Abyssinia. Towns: Hamburg,
Bremen, Saltzburg, Trent, and Ingoldstadt.
Pisces influences Portugal, Calabria, Normandy,
Galicia in Spain, Egypt, Nubia, and the southern parts
of Asia Minor. Towns: Alexandria, Ratisbon, Worms,
Seville, Tiverton, Farnham, and probably Bourne¬
mouth.
If we refer to the transits of Saturn through the sign
Aries during the past six hundred years, we shall be
surprised at the frequent coincidence of misfortunes to
England. In 1290 Saturn was in Aries-, the desperate
war with the Scots was waged by Edward HI., and the
English army was defeated at Roslin near Edinburgh.
In 1319, 1? in T, occurred the rebellion under the
Earls of Lancaster and Hereford. In 1349,1? inT, the
Black Prince was defeated in France, and subsequently
died to the great grief of the nation. In 1378,1? in T,
occurred the rebellion headed by Wat Tyler. In 1437,
1? in T, the English forces met with repeated defeats in
France, losing all but Calais. In 1466, 1? in T, civil
war was raging, headed by Warwick. In 1555,1? inT,
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in Queen Mary’s reign, 277 persons burnt at the stake.
In 1584, in T, a plot was discovered to assassinate
Queen Elizabeth; fourteen persons haDged for their
participation in it. In 1643, JjinT, civil war between
Charles I. and the Parliament. In 1761,12 in T, the
Spaniards joined France in her war against England.
In 1790, >2 in T, war in India, riots at Birmingham
(ruled byT) and such great national distress as “ex¬
ceeded all that had ever happened,” to use Goldsmith’s
words. In 1820, ^inT, trial of Queen Caroline, great
national excitement, royalty disgraced, tumults, etc. In
1849,12 inT, the Asiatic cholera visited this country;
there was great depression in trade; war in the Pun-
jaub.
It is remarkable that when Jupiter was with Saturn
in Aries, as in 1702 and in 1821, the evil influence of
the latter planet was greatly mitigated.
Now let us refer to a few instances of the coincidence
of Jupiter’s stay in Aries with events favourable to
England; as Jupiter is in Aries every twelve years, it
will be impossible, for want of space, to refer to many.
In 896, Jupiter was in Aries; King Alfred beat the
Danes. In 1215, 1/ in T; King John was forced to
sign Magna Charta. In 1346, 1/ in T; the battle of
Cressy was won. In 1415, 1/ in T; the battle of
Agincourt was gained. In 1690 ,11 in T, the battle of
the Boyne was won. In May, 1856,1/ in T, peace was
signed between the Allies (England, France, Turkey,
and Sardinia) and Russia, the Crimean War being
brought to a glorious termination ; a splendid harvest
in England was gitfhered in, the same year—literally
“peace and plenty* In 1868,1/in T, a tide of pro¬
sperity for this country set in, and continued to flow for
several years. In April, 1880, 1 / re-entered T, and an
improvement took place in the trade and commerce of
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England, which had been greatly depressed since Saturn
entered Aries, in May 1878. But, as b was still in T,
trade was not so profitable as hoped for, and the
disasters at the Cape cast a gloom over the empire.
It has been stated that Gemini rules the West of
England, London, and the United States. It is remark¬
able that the rebellion of the American colonies coin¬
cided with the transit of Uranus through the sign
Gemini-, and that on the next occasion of the same
planet passing through the same sign (1859 to 1866)
the great American civil war raged for four years. In
June 1861, a great conflagration took place in London,
lasting for six weeks. In 1862, the West of England
suffered iearfully from the “cotton famine,” nearly a
million of people being in a state of semi-starvation.
Similar coincidences can be stated in regard to other
countries. For example : At the vernal ingress of 1854,
Mars was retrograde in the sign Virgo ; and shortly
afterwards the Czar declared war against Turkey.
The entry of Uranus into the sign Capricomus, in
1822, coincided with the outbreak of the revolution in
Greece; war raged in that country during the whole
period of this planet’s stay in the sign yf. In 1829,
Uranus left it, and when Jupiter entered the same'sign
(in 1830), the Allies interfered and put an end to the
war.
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THE PROGRESS OP THE FIXED STARS THROUGH THE
SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC.
That eminent fixed star the “ Bull’s North Horn ”
(B Tauri), of the second magnitude, and of the nature
of Mars, arrived at 17° 54' of the sign Gemini (the
exact ascendant of London), in 1665-6, when the plague
and fire of London took place. William Lilly, the
celebrated astrologer, foretold, fifteen years beforehand,
those momentous events, from that transit of the martial
star. No doubt Lilly had observed the coincidence of
the outbreak of plague in London in 1625 (the year of
accession of Charles I.), to which no less than 35,417
persons fell victims, with the approach of the Bull’s
North Horn to the ascendant of the metropolis, for it had
then reached 17° 20' of Gemini. It is worthy of remark
that the civil war coincided with this approach of the
martial star to the ascendant of the capital, and that in
1649, when it had arrived at 17° 40' of Gemini, the
king was beheaded.
Nostradamus, also, foretold the fire of London, in the
following lines: 1 —
“ Le sang du juste k Londres fera faute,
Bruslez par feu, de vingt et trois, les six.
La dame antique cherra de place haute,
De meme secte plusieurs seront occis.”
1 At the British Museum Library a copy may be seen of
“ Michel de Nostradame the elder; the true prophecies of,”
translated by F. de Garenci&res, London, 1672. Also a copy
of Lilly’s hieroglyphic of the plague and fire of London.
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
His predictions were published about the year 1555,
during the reign of Queen Mary. The “ancient dame”
referred to St. Paul’s Church, which stood on the site of
an ancient temple of Diana, built, as were all the ancient
temples for the worshippers of Baal and the “heavenly
host,” on “a high place.” St. Paul’s and eighty-nine
other churches, “ of that same sect,” were burnt.
Here is the calculation of the place of the Bull’s
North Horn in 1665:—
Longitude of B Tauri, Jan. 1st, 1879 2 H 20 53 40
Longitude of the ascendant of London H 17 54 0
2 59 40
Then 2° 59' 40"= 10780 seconds of longitude, which
divided by 5025" (the annual motion of the fixed stars)
=214, the number of years since the star was in n
17° 54' 0". From the year 1879 take 214, and the
remainder is 1665.
When the martial star “ Aldebaran ” (a Tauri) of
the first magnitude, shall arrive at 17° 54' Gemini —
about 700 years hence—there will probably happen a
fearful conflagration in, if not the total destruction of
London. Perchance, Macaulay’s New Zealander will
then contemplate the ruins of the great metropolis !
That brilliant martial star Kegulus (a Leonis), the
lion’s heart, entered the sign Leo (in the manner de¬
scribed by Ptolemy) in the year 293 B.C., when the
power of Rome became very fully established, more
especially its religious power or that of the Pontifex
Maximus. The star passed the 28th degree of Leo in
a See the longitudes of eminent fixed stars given at p.
114 of the “ Text-Book of Astrology,” vol. i.
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the year 1868, and must be considered to have then left
the sign. Two years afterwards, the Italian troops
entered Rome, and the Papal (temporal) power, which
had only been sustained by French troops for many
years, was at an end.
The sign next in order to Leo being Virgo, the star
Regulus must be considered to have entered the latter
sign in the year 1868. Virgo is the ruling sign of
Paris and Turkey. In 1870, Paris suffered the horrors
of the siege; and in 1871, the Communists nearly
destroyed the gay metropolis of France. In 1877, the
Turks suffered untold miseries from the crusade led by
Russia against them. While Regulus shall remain in
Virgo neither Turkey nor Paris can expect long-con¬
tinued peace.
It is remarkable that Napoleon I—whose military
genius placed France at the head of all nations, and laid .
Europe at her feet until the coalition of the Great
Powers, aided by the brilliant generalship of Welling¬
ton, the genius of Nelson, and the invincible courage of
British soldiers and sailors, eventually conquered the
French—was born when the Sim was in conjunction
with Regulus (in Leo).
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ECLIPSES OP THE SUN AND MOON.
The belief that these phenomena—or rather the planet¬
ary positions at the moment of greatest eclipse—are a
veritable “ shadow of things to come,” and the most
important indices of future events in the countries where
they are visible, is not, as is commonly supposed, a relic
of the superstitious dread of barbarians who feared that
“ the dragon ” was about to swallow the darkened
• luminary, and who used to beat drums and make
horrible noises in order to frighten away the “ adver¬
sary.” 1
Observers found that the countries through which
the line of central eclipse passed, were subject to the
calamities pre-signified by the planetary positions.
Rules were thereupon formulated by the magi, and have
been handed down to us in a very imperfect manner, for
foretelling the probable effects of eclipses and naming
the countries in which such effects would probably bs
felt. It is an insult to the memory of such men as
Thales, Democritus, and others, who computed and fore-
1 The word Satan, meaning adversary, is derived from
Ash, a fire, and Tan, a dragon—“ the fiery dragon.” As the
great dragon was the enemy of Apollo, the Sun, so Satan is
represented as "the adversary.” The legend of St. George
and the Dragon is derived from this.
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told eclipses, to charge them with vulgar superstition. The
luni-solar period of the Chaldaeans must have been based
upon an immense number of very accurate observations.
The battle of Isandhlwana was fought during an
annular eclipse of the Sun. The map given at p. 396
of the Nautical Almanac for 1879, shows the line of
central and annular eclipse passing through South
Africa (and Zulu-land). This eclipse was also visible
(as a partial eclipse) in that very region of South
America which was the scene of the Chilian War.
The following is the map of the heavens for the
moment of ecliptic conjunction of the luminaries at
Capetown, where a partial eclipse was visible: —
Fig. 3.
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
The rule for casting figures of the heavens for southern
latitudes will be found at p. 49 of the “ Text-Book of
Astrology,” vol. i. The lat. of Capetown is 33° 56' S.,
the long. 18° 28 E. of Greenwich. The pole of the
11th house is 12° 49'; and that of the 12th, 24° 22'.
The Sun was eclipsed in 2° 9' of the sign Aquarius.
Ramesey says that “ a solar eclipse falling in the first
decanate of Aquarius causes public sorrow and sadness.”
Zadkiel (Almanac for 1879) quoted this aphorism,
and added: “ Saturn in the 11th house will bring some
difficulties on the Government, and these may be chiefly
in connection with hostile acts perpetrated by discon¬
tented tribes, for Mars is in square (90°) aspect with
Saturn.”
On the 10th of April, 1865, there occurred a partial
eclipse of the Moon at Washington. Jupiter was in the
ascendant, in Sagittarius. On that very day, General
Lee surrendered to General Grant, with the army of
Virginia, 25,000 strong; thus putting an end to the
great civil war. Zadkiel foretold this event in the
following words:—“I find Jupiter strong in the ascen¬
dant, at this eclipse. I have no doubt peace will take
place under the benefic influence of this eclipse.” Un¬
happily, President Lincoln was assassinated four days
afterwards. It is curious to observe that the Moon was
in the 10th house and in conjunction with the evil
Saturn, and, according to Ramesey, this pre-signified
“ death to some famous and illustrious man.”
It may appear arbitrary to take the Moon as general
significatrix (in Mundane Astrology) of the common
people. Yet it would seem to have some show of
reason when we remember that the Tay Bridge catas¬
trophe, by which nearly 100 lives were lost, only one
or two of the passengers ranking above the class of
“ common people,” took place on the very evening
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(December 28th, 1879) of the partial eclipse of the
Moon in the sign Cancer (which rules Scotland)—aye,
and before the shadow had entirely passed away from
the Moon’s disc. Ramesey avers that such an eclipse
falling in Cancer denotes “ the death and slaughter of
obscure, common, plebeian kind of people.”
On the 12th of July, 1870, a total eclipse of the
Moon, visible in Europe, took place. Three days after¬
wards, Louis Napoleon declared war against Prussia.
The slaughter in that war was horrible.
On the 27th of February, 1877, a total eclipse of the
Moon, visible in Europe, took place in the sign Virgo,
the Moon being in opposition to Saturn.
The relations between Russia and Turkey were then
greatly strained, and on the 24th of April the late Czar
declared war against the Sultan. During the height of
the struggle at Plevna, another total eclipse of the
Moon, visible in Europe, occurred; this time in Pisces,
the sign opposite to Virgo, the Moon being attended by
the two infortunes (nearly conjoined) Mars and Saturn.
The holocaust of victims to the crusade against Turkey
was perfectly appalling.
As to the general effects of eclipses, Ramesey asserts
that—“ When there happens any eclipse of the Sun or
Moon in Taurus, Virgo, or Cajmcornus, it denotes a
scarcity of the fruits of the earth and of corn. In
Gemini, Libra, or Aquarius, a famine or outrageous
diseases, pestilences, and mortalities. In Cancer, Scorpio,
or Pisces, the death and slaughter of obscure, common,
plebeian kind of people, continual quarrels and seditions,
and great damage tt) navigators and sailors. In Aries,
Leo, or Sagittarius, the motion of armies, tumults ; heat,
drought; troubles and anxieties to kings, princes, and
magistrates; fevers, etc.”
On the 25th of April, 1846, there happened an
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
annular eclipse of the Sun in the sixth degree of
Taurus , 3 visible at Greenwich. This was followed by
a failure of the potato crop, and great suffering in
Ireland in consequence thereof. The only kind of com
which produced anything like an average return was
wheat, spring com and pulse being very deficient.
Cardan has transmitted to posterity some aphorisms
relating to eclipses:—“ No eclipse whatsoever can
threaten a plague or scarcity to the whole earth, nor
can the pestilence continue above four years in one
place.
“ Eclipses happening in the fourth are stronger and
more efficacious than in the eighth or twelfth house;
and in the ascendant more than in the ninth or eleventh
house.
“ Eclipses operate more powerfully on cities, provinces,
and kingdoms than on particular persons of private
condition, or even upon kings and princes; for their
effects rather respect the multitude.
“When eclipses happen in earthy signs (0,Vf,i%),
they portend barrenness and scarcity, by reason of
excessive droughts; when in watery signs (s,rrb, X),
by reason of too much rain. In airy signs
they signify mighty winds, seditions, and pestilence; in
fiery signs (T,&, t )i terrible wars and slaughters.”
3 Vide Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1846, p. 35; a diagram of
this eclipse is there given, and the fear expressed that there
would be “ a bad harvest ” and " a scarcity of most fruits,
especially of com.” An eclipse of the Sun in Taurus,
visible at Dublin, took place on May 6th, 1845. There will
be another on the 16th of May, 1882.
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GREAT CONJUNCTIONS.
Ramesey stated that “ there are seven sorts of conjunc¬
tions considerable.”
“ 1. The first and greatest of all the rest is the con¬
junction of the two superior planets Saturn and Jupiter
in the first term or degree of Aries, which happens but
once in 960 years.
“ 2. The second is the conjunction of Saturn and
Jupiter in the first term or degree of every triplicity,
and this is accomplished once in 240 years; yet once in
20 years they come into conjunction in one part or other
of the zodiac.
. “ 3. The conjunction of Satuen and Mars in the first
term or degree of Cancer, and this is once in 30 years.
“ 4. The conjunction of the three superiors, Saturn,
Jupiter, and Mars, in one term or face of any sign.
“ 5. The conjunction of Jupiter and Mars, which is
a mean and the least conjunction of the superiors, and
therefore is not the forerunner of such great mischiefs.
“ 6. The conjunction of the Sun with any planet at
the time of his entrance into the first point of Aries.
“ 7. The conjunction of the Sun and Moon, which
happeneth once every month.”
In consequence of the discovery of the planets Uranus
and Neptune, the list of great conjunctions is greatly
extended, and a re-arrangement necessary.
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
Undoubtedly the most important conjunctions are
these:—
1. The conjunction of two or more of the superior
planets at or near their perihelia.
2. The conjunction of two or more of the superior
planets when one of them is in perigee.
3. The conjunction of two or more of the superior
planets in the first point of Aries, Cancer, Libra, or
Capricornus.
The conjunction of £ and 1/ in 0° 1' 56" of Capri¬
cornus, on March 1st, 1877, 1 was quickly followed by
the Eusso-Turkish war, Bulgaria (ruled by yf) being
the scene of many sanguinary engagements. This con¬
junction was followed by that of Mars and Saturn in
13° 45' 21" of Pisces on the 3rd of November, 1877,
when Mars was in perigee.
The greatest effects of great conjunctions generally
fall on those countries and places whereat the conjoined
planets are exactly rising at the moment of their con¬
junction, e.g. the conjunction of Mars and Saturn in
1879, in the ascendant at Cabul. 2
Iiamesey insists on the figure of the heavens being
cast for the “ punctual time of partile conjunction, viz.,
in the very same sign, degree, and minute of the zodiac’’
—he should have added seconds also. He asserts that
if the conjoined planets be strong and fortunate they
presage good, if weak and impedited the contrary. This
is absurd, for if an evil planet be “strong” (as Saturn
is observed to be when in yf, or xz) it must be the
1 Zadkiel foretold the war from this conjunction. Vide
Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1877. The prediction was written
nine months before the declaration of war.
2 Vide Urania for January, 1880.
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more powerful for evil; certainly, I have never found
that countries ruled by Capricornus (yf) derived any
benefit from the transit of Saturn through their ruling
sign. There is more sense in the following remark of
Eamesey : “ This good or evil shall be according to the
nature of the planets in conjunction, and according to
the nature of the sign in which they are.”
It is asserted that when planets are conjoined in fixed
signs (0, SI, irp, ss) they produce more lasting effects.
I have never been able to verify this; my observations
go to prove that conjunctions in the cardinal signs ( T
E, si, Yf) are identified with the most durable effects.
Eamesey affirms that the conjunction of Saturn and
Jupiter in the first point, or first six degrees, of Aries is
the greatest and most notable conjunction of all, and is
accompanied or quickly followed by “ commotions, wars,
seditions, revolutions, alterations of laws, plagues, the
death of kings,” etc. “ In like manner, the conjunction
of Saturn and Mars in the first three degrees of Cancer
is the forerunner of much evil, via., terrible wars,
slaughters, depopulations, alterations of government, etc.
If it be oriental, its effects will soon operate; if occi¬
dental, not so soon.”
Other aphorisms, most of them arbitrary and fanciful,
are given in respect to other conjunctions.
The arrangement of “ terms ” is altogether arbitrary,
and it was made when the existence of Uranus and
Neptune was unknown.
It is a fact that Taurus and Scorpio are earthquake-
producing signs, i.e., when containing the larger planets;
Cancer and Capricornus are the same, to a less extent.
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COMETS AS PORTENTS.
“ Comets importing change of times and States,
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky.”
Shakespeare.
Comets were regarded as portents by the ancient and
mediaeval astrologers. The rules for judging of their
signification are similar to those relating to eclipses and
great conjunctions.
Albumazar and Junctinus averred that comets be¬
coming first visible in Aries pre-signify evil to nobles
and grandees in eastern parts and in those countries
influenced by that sign; drought, drying up of foun¬
tains, etc.
The comet of 1870 appeared in Aries (the sign ruling
Germany), and very near the degree of right ascension
of the Sun and Mars at the birth of Napoleon III.
Drought was experienced in most parts of Europe that
year. The terrible Franco-German war was begun in
July, 1870, and in the following September Louis
Napoleon surrendered to the King of Prussia, at Sedan.
The appearance of Donati’s comet, in 1858, was
quickly followed by the Italian war of 1859. The
appearance of the great comet of 1861 coincided with
the great conflagration in London (which had not been
equalled for two hundred years), and was immediately
followed by the outbreak of the Civil War in N.
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America; this comet appeared in Gemini (the sign
ruling London and the United States).
The present year (1881) has been signalised by the
appearance of three comets. The great comet (Comet
B) was first seen, in the second decimate of Gemini, on
the 22nd of May; on the 2nd of July, 1881, the Presi¬
dent of the United States was shot. Great storms,
perfect hurricanes, and volcanic action, quickly followed
the appearance of this comet. It is singular to relate
that the ancients aver that the appearance of a comet
in Gemini pre-signifies “ tempestuous, stormy winds,”
and “ the death of some famous and illustrious man.”
Comet C, 1881, also appeared in the second decanate of
Gemini. The great heat of the month of July, in
England, France, Austria, N. America, etc., will long
be remembered—being one more instance of the heat of
“ comet years.”
The death of President Garfield—in the midheaven
of whose horoscope Comet B appeared—the mourning
for him in the United States, and the terrible forest
fires, have quickly followed the appearance of these
comets in Gemini. With these coincidences in view,
we can hardly wonder at the dread felt and expressed
by our forefathers at the appearance of great comets.
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ASTRO-METEOROLOGY.
“ When the planets,
In evil mixture, to disorder wander.
What plagues ! and what portents! what mutiny!
What raging of the sea! shaking of the earth!
Commotion in the winds! ”— Shakespeare.
The word Meteorology is derived from fj-ereuicof
(meteoros), elevated, or soaring. The object of meteor¬
ology is stated to be “ properly the scientific study of
atmospheric phenomena, and the investigation of weather
and climate.” 1 Nothing so improper as the endeavour
to trace a possible and probable connexion between
astronomical causes and weather-changes, earthquakes,
etc., is to be found in the received and State supported
system of meteorology. Hence the prefix “ Astro ” is
used to differentiate between the system piesented tor
consideration in these pages and the received system,
and to denote that astronomical causes are studied and
recognised.
The disclosures of the cuneiform inscriptions prove
that the phenomena of the weather were observed and
recorded together with the configurations of the heavenly
bodies. 2
Kepler, Bacon, and many other eminent men of old
1 Lecture by Dr. Mann, Y.P.Ji.S., delivered under the
auspices of the Meteorological Society, in 1878.
* “ Babylonian Literature.” By the Rev. A. H. Sayce.
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time, traced the connexion—or, to say the least, the
coincidence —between astronomical causes and weather
changes. The savans of the present century reject
planetary influence, yet, with the exception of the
improvement of meteorological instruments and the
refinement of observations, they have not advanced the
science.
Mr. Kendrick tells us that “ by their science the
Egyptian astrologers could foretell years of scarcity and
plenty, pestilences, earthquakes, inundations, and the
appearance of comets, and do many other things sur¬
passing the sagacity of the vulgar.” 3
Pliny relates of Anaximander that “ he foretold the
earthquakes that overthrew Lacedaemon.” Pliny also
relates that Anaxagoras foretold the fall of a meteoric
stone, about the second year of the 78th Olympiad,
which occurred near the Egos, in Thrace. “ It happened,”
says Pliny, “ in sight of many, in the day-time, a comet
blazing at the time, and this stone was as big as a wain
could carry, and was kept for a monument.”
Aristotle relates of Thales that “ being upbraided by
some foolish scoffers on account of his poverty, and with
the unprofitableness of his studies in wisdom and philo¬
sophy, he had recourse to his astrological skill; whereby,
foreseeing that in the year following olives would be
unusually plentiful, to show his reproachers the vanity
of their ill-timed scoffing, the winter before that year
he hired all the shops and depositories (both at Chios
and Miletum) that were reserved for the making of oil.
Having got them into his hands for a very small sum.
when the time came for gathering olives, every man
• "Ancient Egypt under the Pharoahs.” By John
Kendrick, M.A.
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
being destitute of rooms and offices answerable to the
great plenty of olives with which they were glutted,
was driven to resort to Thales for his supply thereof;
who, taking advantage of that necessity, did turn them
over at what price himself listed, whereby he gained a
great mass of money; and afterwards, to show his con¬
tempt of riches, gave it to the poor.”
What has meteorology gained by being divorced from
Astrology ? Can the meteorologists of the present day
emulate the achievements of the Chaldseans and the
ancient Egyptians—can they foretell years of plenty,
pestilence, earthquakes, and inundations ? No. Meteor¬
ology, so far as prediction of the weather is concerned,
has retrograded rather than advanced.
In a letter to the Times, in the year 1875, Mr. J. G.
Symons, the indefatigable hon. sec. of the B. M. Society,
said—“ My own shelves, and those of the library of the
Meteorological Society, groan beneath the weight of
masses of records; the requisite in meteorology is not
observations, but brains to work out the results.”
Mr. B. H. Scott, in a recent lecture, reiterated the
remarks of Capt. Hoffmeyer: “ When the proper time
arrives, a Kepler will be surely forthcoming to discover
the laws by which our science works; for us to endea¬
vour to force the plant in its growth is hopeless.”
Why, Kepler gave the key to this discovery when he
averred that “a most unfailing experience of the
EXCITEMENT OF SUBLUNARY NATURES BY THE CONJUNCTION
AND ASPECTS OF THE PLANETS, HAS INSTRUCTED AND
COMPELLED MY UNWILLING BELIEF.”
Max Muller says'*—“ The torch of imagination is as
* “ Science of Language,” vol. i. p. 21.
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necessary to him who looks for truth, as the lamp of
study; Kepler held both, and, more than that, he had
the star of faith to guide him in all things from darkness
to light.”
The “British meteorologists” of the present day,
while uttering jeremiads as to the state of meteorology,
are positively too prejudiced to even examine into
planetary influence. They reject with scorn, unworthy
of philosophers, the experience and belief of the great
Kepler; hence they are still groping in a worse than
Egyptian darkness, from which they most assuredly can
never emerge until they shall follow the lead of Kepler.
No other guide can lead them from darkness to light. If
they would but take the trouble to compare their records
of observations with the “ conjunctions and aspects of
the planets ”— i.e., with the aspects formed between the
Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus,
and Neptune—they would quickly rescue meteorology
from its present hopeless and helpless state. While
they discourage such comparisons they will make no real
progress whatever.
Prof. Wolf, Messrs. De la Rue, Stewart, and Loewy
have done good service in directing attention to planetary
action in connexion with “ Solar Physics.” But this is
not enough ; the inquiry must be pushed further, it must
be made on the lines laid down by Kepler.
“ Till very lately, Caloric was a term in constant use,
and it was supposed to express some real matter, some¬
thing that produced heat. That idea is now exploded,
and heat is understood to be the result of molecular and
ethereal vibrations.” 6
* "Lectures on the Science of Language.” By Prof.
Max. Muller. Vol. ii., p. 633.
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
The observer finds that when the Sun is in “ aspect ”
with Mars and Jupiter the temperature of the air rises ;
and that when the Sun is in aspect with Saturn and
Uranus the temperature falls.
“ Changes of weather are closely related to changes
of wind, and changes of wind to changes .in the distri¬
bution of atmospheric pressure,” 6 generally speaking.
The changes may be constantly observed to take place
simultaneously with the varying “ aspects.” Northerly
winds and “ fine weather cumulus ” prevail under
Jupiter’s influence; easterly winds and “ showery
weather cumulus ” prevail under Saturn’s influence.
Drought takes place under the combined action of
Mars and Jupiter; heavy rainfall occurs under the
combined action of Venus and Saturn.
The “ aspects ” or configurations observed to be
effective in meteorology are the differences of longitude
of 30°, 36°, 45°, 60°, 72°, 90°, 120°, 135°, 144°, 150°,
and 180°.
Kepler suggested, in addition to those enumerated,
the following aspects:—18°, 24°, and 108°.
8 “ Aids to the Study and Forecast of Weather.” By W.
C. Lay, M.A. Published by the authority of the Meteor¬
ological Council.
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ASTRO-METEOROLOGY— Continued.
The following tables will show the various kinds of
weather observed to coincide wtth the various aspects
and positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets.
I.—METEOROLOGICAL TABLE OF THE SUN.
Spring.
Summer.
Autumn.
Generally Y ariable— V ariable—
wind and generally misty or
rain ; § showers. rainy—and
retrograde, windy,
ever rain.
Misty or
rainy.
Thunder
showers—
dashing
rain.
Rainy.
Mars. dry.
Mild and
windy.
Bain or Hail, rain. Cold, rainy. Snow, rain,
s n o w ; or thunder- and stormy or heavy
Saturn, heavy storms. gales,
clouds; raw
air.
W indy; Showers and W indyStormy
Neptune, generally wind. and rainy, downfall.
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
TABLE n.—“MUTUAL” ASPECTS.
Summer. Autumn. Winter.
Wind; some
Neptune
and
Mars.
Warm and Fair; mild
fine. air.
Fine; heat.
Mild, windy.
Neptune Bain or Showery. Mist or rain. Fog or rain,
and mist.
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Table H. continued.
Planets.
Spring.
Summer.
Autumn.
Winter.
Uranus
and
Mercury.
Windy,
variable,
and cold.
Windy; hail
or rain.
High winds;
hail.
Gusty and
cold.
Saturn
and
Jupiter.
Windy, cold,
and often
rainy.
R a i n y ;
thunder.
Wind and
rain.
Turbulent
air.
Saturn
and
Mars.
Rainy,
windy;
thunder.
Thunder¬
storm!.
Windy and
unsettled.
Cold and
windy.
Saturn
and
Venus.
Cold and
rainy.
Sudden
rains, cool
air.
Cold and
rainy.
Snow or
rain; fog.
Saturn
and
Mercury
Wind and
often rain.
Windy and
unsettled.
Windy and
rainy.
Snow or
frost; wind.
Jupiter
and
Mars.
Turbulent
but dry air.
Great heat
and thun¬
der.
Windy, but
warm.
Mild and
windy.
Jupiter
and
Venus.
Pine
growing
weather.
Heat, and
pleasant
air.
Clear and
serene air.
Mild, yet
snow may
fall.
Jupiter.
and
Mercury.
Gusty, fine
generally.
Gusty, thun¬
der or hail¬
storms.
Windy;
hail.
Windy;
hail.
Mars
and
Venus.
Abundant
rains.
Small rain
prevails.
Rainy.
Snow or
rain.
Mars
and
Wowtirr
Windy and
sometimes
roimr
Thunder or
hailstorms.
Wind and
hail.
Snow or
rain.
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
Table II. continued.
Planets.
Spring.
Summer.
Autumn.
Winter.
Venus
and
Mercury.
Pleasant
showers,
misty air.
Cloudy
or rainy.
Variable;
misty air.
Abundant
rains;
sometimes
floods.
TABLE HL—PLANETS STATIONARY, OR IN THE
EQUATOR OR TROPICS.
Planets.
Spring.
Summer.
Autumn.
Winter.
Neptune
Windy and
rainy.
Showery.
Windy and
showery.
Stormy.
Uranus.
Cold, windy,
and rainy.
Cool and
Showery.
Windy, cold,
and rainy.
Stormy,
snow or
rain.
Saturn.
Windy, cold,
and unset¬
tled.
Cold, and
windy.
Stormy,
snow or
rain.
Jupiter.
Gusty, but
mild air.
Heat; some
thunder.
Warm air;
thunder.
Stormy, but
mild.
Mars.
mm
Warm air;
thunder.
U nsettled,
gusty.
Venus.
Rainy and
cold.
Showery.
Rainy and
cold.
Snow or
rain.
Mercury.
Windy and
unsettled.
Variable ;
gusty.
Rainy and
windy.
Stormy,
snow or
rain.
Certain of the various configurations and relative posi¬
tions of the Sun, Moon, and planets, are found to
operate with greater force than others: 1. The Solar
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configurations are of primary importance. 2. The posi¬
tion of the Moon and planets in equator or tropics, the
northern tropic affecting mostly the northern hemi¬
sphere. 3. The stationary positions of the planets.
4 . The “ mutual ” aspects of the planets.
The “aspects” may be divided into two classes,
major and minor. The conjunction and parallel declina¬
tion are of the major class, and probably more potent
than any aspects. The major aspects are: the opposi¬
tion (180°), square (90°), trine (120°), and sextile (60°).
The minor aspects are: the semi-square (45°), sesqui-
quadrate (135°), quincunx (150°), biquintile (144°),
quintile (72°), decile (36°), tredecile (108°), semi-sextile
(30°), quindecile (24°), and vigintile (18°).
The solar aspects of the major class usually operate
for a period of from two to four days—the parallels of
declination always begin to act the day before they are
complete. The stationary, equatorial, and tropical
positions of the superior planets exert a disturbing in¬
fluence on the weather for two or three days—in some
cases, when no other positions interfere, for even seven
or more days. The major aspects of the superior
planets operate for about two or three days, usually.
The major aspects of the inferior planets (Mercury and
Venus) and the minor aspects of the superior planets
(Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) do not
usually operate for a longer period than twenty-four
hours.
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HOW TO PBEDICT THE WEATHER.
“ To place the forecasts of weather, even of the general
weather of the coming season, on a sound and certain basis,
to gain the power of foretelling a cold spring, a wet summer,
or a late harvest, would be to confer an incalculable benefit
upon the people of this country.”—The Times, September,
1878 .
In my “ Weather Guide Book,” published in the year
1864, I gave rules for foretelling the general character
of the weather. Those rules (revised) are now once
more presented to the consideration of the scientific
world and the intelligent public.
1. Tabulate the aspects and relative positions of the
Sun, Moon, and planets, in three columns, as shown in
the table of phenomena on the succeeding page.
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PHENOMENA, JULY, 1881.
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
2. If the solar configurations with Mars and Jupiter
preponderate, and especially if Jupiter be stationary
or in mutual aspect with Mars, there will be but little
rain and the temperature will be above the average.
3. If the Solar aspects with Saturn, Uranus, Venus,
and Mercury (retrograde) preponderate, expect much
downfall and low temperature.
4. When the Sun is in aspect with Mercury (the
conjunction and parallel declination) expect rapid
changes and strong wind. When, at or near the same
time, Mercury is in aspect with Saturn, Uranus, or
Neptune, txpect gales or storms of wind. When, at or
near the same time, Mercury is in aspect with Mars or
Jupiter, expect elevation of temperature, and hail or
thunderstorms.
5. When Mars or Jupiter is in equator or at ex¬
treme north declination expect high temperature, with
occasional gusts of wind. When Saturn, Uranus, or
Neptune is in such position, expect stormy weather.
When Venus is so placed, expect much rain and some
wind.
6. When there are several mutual aspects of the
planets (within a few days) expect great atmospheric
disturbance; and when two or more configurated
planets are, at the same time, in Taurus or Scorpio,
or near the equator or tropic, expect volcanic action
and great storms.
7. When at the equinox or solstice, either Uranus or
Saturn is in the lower meridian and configurated with
the Sun, expect a cold and unsettled season ; when
Mars or Jupiter is so situated expect a fine and pro¬
pitious season ; when Venus is so situated expect much
rain.
In Urania for January, 1880 (in my article on “ The
Weather and its Prediction”), several instances were
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given of the angular positions of the planets Saturn and
Uranus at the equinoxes and solstices being followed by
unusually cold and wet seasons.
If we refer to the map of the heavens for the winter
solstice, 1881, given at page 15, we shall find that
Uranus is in the lower meridian, and, therefore, we may
anticipate a very cold winter in 1881-2; but as Mars is
in the ascendant and in opposition to the Moon, there
will be mild weather at intervals The coldest periods
of the ensuing winter will probably be from January
16th to 26th; February 16th to 22nd ; 25th and 26th;
and March 4th to 7th, 1882. The mildest periods:
January 5th, 9th to 11th ; February 3rd to 6th, 15th ;
March 11th to 13th, 26th and 31st. The stormy
periods : December 19th, 23rd and 27th ; January 6th,
18th, 23rd to 25th ; February 2nd, 16th and 26th;
March 4th, 7th, 18th, 20th, and 31st. The periods of
much downfall: December 23rd, 1881; January 4th,
25th, and 31st ; February 17th, 20th to 22nd, and 26th;
March 5th, 17th, 21st, and 29th, 1882.
A glance at the phenomena, of July, 1881, and a com¬
parison of them with the meteorological tables given in
chapter ix., will explain the extremes of temperature
and sudden variations of weather that characterised that
month. [Comet b, 1881, was then visible]. On the
5th of July, 1881, the shade temperature reached 93°
in the South of London. The influence then operating
was Venus par. dec. Jupiter. This was followed, in
the early morning of the 6th, by a violent thunderstorm
which prevailed over the whole of England and Wales
and part of Ireland, doing an immense amount of damage.
At 6 h 56'8 m a m. on the 6th of July, the conjunction cf
Mars and Saturn took place in Taurus 10° 24' 15".
An extremely low temperature followed. Again, as
the influence of the Sun in sextile aspect (60°) with
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
Jupiter (on the 12th inst) came into operation, the
temperature rose again (on the 11th inst) until it
reached 97T°, in the shade, at Greenwich Observatory,
on the 15th inst. This extreme heat was partly due
to the approaching conjunction of Mars and Jupiter in
Taurus 21° 47' 58''. When this conjunction was com¬
plete (on the 22nd inst.), and the influence of the Son
•par. dec. Venus came into play, the temperature again
fell and rainy weather followed. During the closing
days of July, 1881, Saturn was in trine (a very rare
aspect) with Uranus, and the weather, accordingly,
became unsettled and very cool.
In case a doubt should arise as to the storm of the
6th of July, 1881, being due to the conjunction of Mars
and Saturn, we will refer to the conjunctions of those
planets which have occurred during the last few years.
First, let us note that Zadkiel foretold that this conjunc¬
tion would be attended by “ a most violent storm; ’’ and
that the Meteorologic Office issued no warning whatever
of it.
There was a conjunction of Mars and Saturn on the
80th of June, 1879, at 7 h 38 m p.m., in Aries 15° 8' 38*.
On that night, a very sudden and rapid fall of the
barometer took place, and a heavy gale set in, on the
south-west coasts of England, resulting in sad disasters
to shipping on the Cornish coast. In this case also the
Government meteorologists issued no warning of a
coming storm, but announced that the weather was
“improving;” whereas Zadkiel had published, nine
months beforehand, his forecast of “ a great storm on
the 30th of June.”
On the 3rd of November, 1877, Mars and Saturn were
conjoined, at ll h 28.3 m p.m., in Pisces 13° 45' 21*. On
that very night there was a great storm at Constanti¬
nople, and rough weather on our coasts. Zadkiel’s
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forecast was: “November 3rd to 5th, a stormy and
rainy period.”
On the 22nd of November, 1875, Mars was in con¬
junction with Saturn (and in opposition to Uranus).
Very stormy weather, with sleet and rain, prevailed in
the north of England. Zadkiel foretold storms at this
period. One more instance may be recalled, and it is
a notable one. On the 11th of September, 1861, Mars
was in conjunction with Saturn. Zadkiel’s forecast
was: September, 1861, “a month remarkable for tem¬
pests —11th storms, much rain—lol I have warned
you!” On the 10th inst. the “Great Eastern” sailed
from Liverpool, no warning of an impending storm
having been sent to the captain from the Meteorologic
Office. On the 11th, the Great Eastern was nearly
destroyed by a fearful storm. Coincidences such as
these might be multiplied. Unfortunately, the Govern¬
ment meteorologists treat them with ridicule.
“We know nothing of physical causes except by observ¬
ing instances .of what appear to be invariable and neces¬
sary sequence. After a certain amount of experience we
assume the invariability and the necessity; and we do
so most readily when our set of experiences is backed
up and supported by other sets of experiences. Thus
watching for coincidences is a necessary process of
scientific discovery.” 1
Astronomers would find it more profitable and more
commendable to watch for such coincidences and
sequences as the foregoing, than to confine their obser-
vatiqns of the conjunctions of Mars and Saturn to the
comparatively puerile amusement of “ testing photo¬
metrically and also photographically the lustre of the
conjoined planets.”
1 Intellectual Observer, September, 1864.
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
The sudden fall of temperature and heavy rainstorms
of the 6th of June, 1881, after a period of intense heat,
coincided with the conjunction of Venus with Saturn.
The fearful snowstorm of January 18th, 1881, was
due to the Sun 135° Uranus, Venus par. dec. and
opposition Uranus, and Venus par. dec. Saturn.
The succession of gales which prevailed from the 7th
to the 10th of January, 1866, and culminated in that
terrible storm that wrecked the ill-fated “ London,”
destroying 220 lives, coincided with the opposition of
Mars and Uranus (from the tropics), and the Sun in
par. dec. with Mercury.
The fearful gale of October 25th, 1859, which
wrecked the “ Royal Charter,” coincided with the
opposition of Mars and Neptune, both planets being
very near the Equator.
The great Crimean hurricane of the 14th of Novem¬
ber, 1854, coincided with the opposition of Venus and
Uranus, and the parallel declination of Mercury with
Jupiter and Saturn.
The late Admiral FitzRoy, in his “ Weather-Book ”
(pp. 257-64) gave an account of the terrible tempest at
Barbadoes on the night of August 10-11, 1831. That
tempest destroyed five thousand lives. The whole face
of the country was laid waste; no sign of vegetation
was apparent. The planets Mars and Saturn were then
in parallel declination, and on the 12th were in conjunc¬
tion. The Sun was in opposition with Jupiter on
the 10th. Zadkiel, writing of this conjunction said:
“There are now (August, 1831) three planets, namely
Saturn, Mars, and Mercury conjoined in the first degrees
of Virgo. Storms , wreclcs, and violent convulsions of
nature will assuredly follow 1 This assemblage of the
heavenly bodies always foreshows direful events. On
the 11th expect stormy and bad harvest weather."
ASTRO-METEOROLOGY.
51
On February 28th and March 1st, 1818, the
“ Magicienne,” trigate, was lying at Mauritius, moored
in the harbour of Port Louis: and on that occasion,
this frigate and forty other vessels were driven on shore,
or were sunk. The barometer sunk lower than ever
was known, and most of those who observed it were
unable to account for the notice it gave in so extra¬
ordinary a manner. On the 27th of February, the Sun
was in conjunction with Saturn; and Jupiter was in
parallel declination with Uranus. On the 3rd of March,
Mars was in opposition with Uranus, and Venus was in
conjunction with Saturn.
In like manner numerous other instances of the
coincidence of violent 6torms with conjunctions, etc., of
the Sun and the larger planets, could be cited, did
space permit. In fact, we may aver that there never
happened either an extraordinary storm or violent
convulsion of nature without the coincidence of violent
aspects of the heavenly bodies, and vice versd.
The changes of temperature which precede rain are
chiefly due to planetary action; if they were due solely
to solar action we should always have the same tempe¬
rature, in the same place, on the corresponding day of
every year. When Venus is in aspect with the Sun,
Mars, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, a fall of rain coin¬
cides or immediately follows; for Venus seems to exert
a pluvial influence.
The amount of rainfall in any locality depends on
several circumstances. Sir John Herschel says: “The
most influential being its proximity to large bodies of
heated water, such a prevalent direction of the wind as
shall not drift the vapour away from it, and the absence
of any lofty mountains in the direction of the moist
wind to act as a barrier by causing its deposition on
them. As we recede from the sea into the interior of
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
great continents rain becomes rare, especially if the soil
be sandy. The west coasts of England and Ireland
receive with the west and south-west winds, which
generally prevail, the vapour of the Gulf Stream. In
consequence, the annual fall of rain is not only much
greater than on the eastern and southern coasts, but in
one district, that of the Lakes of Cumberland, is quite
enormous. The annual fall at Seathwaite, in Borrow-
dale, amounted to no less than 141 - 54 inches on an
average of three years, while that in London is only
23i. Rain, except in the tropical regions, is, perhaps,
the most irregular of all meteorological phenomena, both
in respect of the frequency of its occurrence, and in the
quantity which falls in a given time.”
Boerhave thought that planetary action might very
probably contribute to unite the primary particles of
water floating separately in the atmosphere, and thus
occasion rain, snow, and hail. “ The generation ol hail
seems to depend on a very sudden introduction of an
extremely cold current of. air into the bosom of a
quiescent, nearly saturated mass”—Sir John Herschel
says. 2 Large masses of ice iiave occasionally fallen,
and Sir John Herschel thought that Professor Tyndall’B
experiments on the reuniting of broken ice by “ regela¬
tion,” or a sort of welding, fully explain the formation
of large masses of ice of irregular forms in aerial con¬
flict. “ Great hailstorms are often preceded by a loud
clattering and clashing sound, indicating the hurtling
together ot masses of ice in the air.” On the 8th of
May, 1832, a mass of ice fell in Hungary a yard in
length and nearly two feet in thickness ; the Sun was
that day in square aspect (90°) with UraDus. Hail¬
storms often coincide with the major aspects of Mercury
s “Meteorology.” By Sir John Herschel, Bart., K.H.
ASTRO-METEOROLOGY.
53
with Jupiter formed near the time of Solar aspects with
Saturn or Uranus.
In Mr. Glaisher’s translation of Flammarion’s L'Atmo¬
sphere is the following paragraph :—
“ Hail occurs during a thunderstorm when the tem¬
perature is very high upon the surface of the ground,
but decreases rapidly with elevation. This rapid de¬
crease is the principal element in the formation of hail,
and it has been known to be as much as 1° in a little
more than 100 feet. What then takes place in the
region of the clouds ? Those above, from 10 to 20 or
25 thousand feet high, contain, the highest of them, ice
at about 80° Fahrenheit, the lowest of them vesicular
water at about zero Fahrenheit. The lower clouds con¬
tain vesicular water above 32°. As a rule these clouds
travel in different directions, and hail is formed when
there is a collision and admixture of winds, currents,
and clouds, the temperatures of which are different.
The vapour which then resolves itself into rain freezes
instantaneously in so low a temperature.”
Now this is to the last degree compatible with
planetary action; for the sudden lowering of the tempe¬
rature of the air caused by the operation of Saturn’s or
Uranus’s influence (as, for example, May 8th, 1832,
Od 1$), or the struggle between contending influences
when Jupiter and Saturn are operating together, will
account for the rapid formation of hail.
On the 6th-7th of May, 1862, a hurricane of wind,
accompanied by vivid lightning, passed over London, the
Isle of Wight, Nottingham, Derbyshire, Leicestershire,
Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire. Large hailstones fell,
some of them three inches long, two inches wide, and
half-an-inch thick. 3 At Whittlesea the hailstones were
; Vibiwic
* See Mr. Lowe’s description of this storm, in the Intel-
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SCIENCE or THE STARS.
from four to five inches, and at Leeds seven inches in
circumference. On the 6th of May, the Sun was in
conjunction with Mercury and trine (120°) with Saturn;
and Mercury was in trine with Jupiter on the 7th.
Here we find opposing influences operating together, and
a violent storm accompanied with hail is the result.
The great thunderstorm of August 23rd-24th, 1855,
resulted from the Sun being in opposition with Jupiter
and in sextile with Saturn, Jupiter having the trine
with Saturn ; Mars in par. dec. Saturn; Mercury in
opposition with Jupiter and sextile with Saturn.
The thunderstorm of September 3rd, 1841, which
visited at the same time London, Paris, Rouen, Magney,
Lille, and Evereux, resulted from the Sun being in
square aspect with Jupiter; Saturn being statiotiary
at the same time and within 1° of the par. dec. of both
Mars and Jupiter.
In August, 1881, the harvest has suffered greatly
from the excessive rainfall. In this month we find
many pluvial aspects. Saturn stationary on the 25th
inst., coinciding with Mars in square with Uranus, and
Mercury in square with Jupiter, produced violent storms
of wind, rain, and hail, the country in many parts being
flooded.
Cardan observed that “ whenever Saturn is joined
with the Sun, heat is remitted, and cold increased;
which alone may be a sufficient testimony to the truth
of astrology.” Three centuries of observation, since
Cardan wrote, have served to prove the truth of this
aphorism.
In our variable climate, next to the forecasting of
periods of great storms, the successful prediction of
periods of fine weather forms the best test of the truth
of a system of predictive meteorology.
CHAPTER XI.
EARTHQUAKES.
“ Possessor of the ocean’s gloomy depth,
Ground of the sea, earth’s bourn, and source of all!
Shaking prolific Ceres’ sacred Beat,
When in the deep recesses of thy reign.
The madding blasts are by thy power confined;
But oh ! the Earthquake's dreadful force forefend ! ”
Obphic Hymn.
Aristotle in his MerecupoMyiKa , published about 300
B.C., treated of meteors, water, air, and earthquakes.
He observed that earthquakes chiefly occur “ about
the Hellespont, Achaia, Sicily, and Euboea.” He also
placed on record the fact that “ it sometimes happens
that there is an earthquake about the eclipses of the
Moon.’’ 1 M. Barthelemy Saint Hilaire, commenting
on this observation, says, in a foot-note: “ Pendant 16a
eclipses de lune,” c’est la une coincidence toute fortuite;
mais les deux phinomenes n’ont aucun rapport. The
clever French translator and author here asserts more
than he knows. An unprejudiced comparison of the
dates of great earthquakes with those of eclipses of the
Sun and Moon, shows very striking coincidences so
frequently repeated as to lead to the conclusion that
they are not “ fortuitous ” and may have some “ rap¬
port.” It is the planetary positions at eclipses that
1 “The Works of Aristotle,” translated from the Greek,
by Thomas Taylor. Yol. V. “On the Heavens, Meteors,”
etc. Book II., p. 528.
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
are the causes (or the “ signs ”) of earthquakes. It is
generally found that the shock is felt at those places
where Jupiter or Saturn is angular at the moment of
greatest eclipse; and that the shock usually takes place
when Jupiter or Saturn (as the case may be) retro¬
grades over its own place at the eclipse, or when it
arrives at the longitude of the eclipse or the square or
opposition thereof.
The late Commander Morrison, R.N., published in
the year 1834 the following observations on and rules
for foretelling earthquakes:—
“ 1. Earthquakes generally follow close on the heels
of eclipses.
“ 2. At the period of the earthquake, many aspect*
will be found between the planets in the heavens; also,
as regards the places of the planets at the preceding
eclipse, but chiefly the places of the Sun and Moon.
“ 3. Earthquakes happen more frequently when there
are planets—especially Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and
Mars—in the signs Taurus and Scorpio.
“ 4. If there have been no recent eclipse of the
Moon, within a month, look to the last eclipse of the
Sun. 2
“ 5. The planet Jupiter, in aspect with Yenus or
Mercury, more especially the conjunction, opposition,
and parallel declination, has a powerful influence in
causing earthquakes—especially when in Taurus or
Scorpio.
“ 6. If no eclipse have taken place within three
months, look to the planets’ places at the last new or
full moon of the quarter, i.e. the lunation nearest to the
Sun’s crossing the equator or tropic.
1 Earthquakes mostly occur in places where Jupiter or
Saturn is in the meridian at the eclipse.
EARTHQUAKES.
57
“ 7. Earthquakes generally happen when there are
several planets in or near the tropics or equator.
“ 8. Earthquakes may always be expected near the
perihelion of great comets, and when they approach
within the orbits of the planets Uranus and Saturn.
“ 9. Let all, or as many as possible, of these circum¬
stances be combined before any very extensive earth¬
quakes be predicted.”
At the earthquake of Santa Martha, which coincided
with a great eruption of Mount Vesuvius, on the 22nd
of May, 1834, the geocentric longitudes and declinations
of the Sun, Moon, and Planets, were:—
©
J
?
s
V-
h
W
Long.
Dec.
H
24m&
16 s 15
IB
20H12
23n56
218 SO
17n21
26ss30
13 s 22
At the lunation 8 (full Moon) nearest the vernal equinox,
the longitudes and declinations of the Sun, Moon, and
planets, were:—
©
5
?
3
V-
h
W
IBS
4r 7
1 n38
• /
4=0: 7
2n56
o /
25ssl2
14 s 12
88 0
13n19
24st49
13 s 55
At the time of the earthquake Saturn was in transit
over the exact place of the Moon at the lunation ; and
Mars had attained the declination of the Moon at the
lunation. Moreover, at the earthquake, Saturn was
within 1° of arc in declination; Jupiter, nearly con¬
joined with Mercury, was in Taurus, and the Moon (in
Scorpio) was in opposition with Mercury and Jupiter.
* March 25th, 1834, 6 b 13" a.m.
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
On the 15th of July, 1853, a fearful earthquake
happened at Cumana, at 2 h 15 m p.m. (mean time there),
by which thousands of lives were lost. On the 6th of
June, 1853, the Sun was eclipsed. The longitudes of
the Sun, Moon, and planets at the moment of ecliptic
conjunction of the luminaries, were:—
0 and ))
5
?
3
h
w
V
150 56
O /
7042
22 0 23
17 a 52
y£
13x42
The longitudes of the heavenly bodies at the tixe of
the earthquake were:—
B
5
.?
3
V-
h
¥
V
•; | £
15026
15743
288 43
12 8 9
13 x 30b
On the day of the Cumana earthquake Jupiter had
arrived at the opposition of the place of the eclipse.
Mars was passing over the place of the eclipse and was
in opposition to Jupiter, and the Moon was in opposition
to the place of Mars at the eclipse.
Reference to p. 524 of the Nautical Almanac for
1853, will show that the eclipse was visible at Cumana.
At the moment of ecliptic conjunction, the sign Scorpio
11° 23' was in the ascendant at Cumana, Uranus, Mars,
and Saturn, all three in the sign Taurus, were setting.
At the moment of the earthquake the 27th deg. of
Scorpio was in the ascendant and Saturn was exactly
setting in Taurus 28° 48'. In Zadkiel’s Almanac for
1853 (page 42), will be found the following forecast:—
“ As Mars and Saturn are in Taurus in the precedent
angle of the eclipse at Panama, I have no doubt there
will be a fearful amount of earthquakes there, and all
about the Isthmus of Darien, the shocks extending to
EARTHQUAKES.
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Carthagena, along the northern coast of South America,
to Honduras, California, Florida, etc., and the West
Indies. These events may be looked for (among other
periods) in July, 1853, about the 16th day.”
Cumana is situate on the northern coast of South
America. The earthquake took place there at the
precise period foretold by Zadkiel.
M. Delauney, of the French Academy, has been
making some researches in this connexion. Taking for
data M. Alexis Perrey’s tables from 1750 to 1842, and
noting the maxima of the curve obtained, he finds a
first group of maxima commencing in 1759, and having
a period of about 12 years; a second commencing in
1756, also with a period of 12 years; and a third and
fourth group commencing in 1756 and 1773 respectively,
and each having a period of 28 years. Now the epochs
of maxima of the first and second groups coincide, says
M. Delauney, with the epochs when Jupiter attains his
mean longitudes of 265° and 135°, while, the epochs of
maxima of the third and fourth groups correspond to
the periods when Saturn is found at the same two
longitudes. Thus earthquakes seem to pass through a
maximum when the planets Jupiter and Saturn are in
close proximity to the mean longitudes of 265° and
135°. M. Delauney is further of opinion that this
influence is due to the passage of these two planets
through cosmic streams of meteors. He gives an
approximate table of future earthquakes, indicating
particularly the years 1886, 1891, 1898, 1900, 1912,
1919, 1927 and 1930 as likely to have numerous earth¬
quakes.
The longitude of 265° is only 5° short of the southern
tropic (270°). That of 135 p is the middle of the sign
Leo, and a planet so placed is in square aspect to
another, placed in the middle of Taurus or Scorpio.
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SCIENCB or THE STARS.
The theory that the “ influence is due to the passage of
Jupiter and Saturn through cosmic streams of meteors ”
is untenable when we reflect that great earthquakes
have frequently occurred when these and other planets
have held such other positions as those before enume¬
rated.
Dr. Goad gave a list (in his work Astro-Mete,orologica
published two centuries since) of twenty earthquakes
which happened while the planet Jupiter was in Taurus.
He adds: “I am as sure as I write that this pheno¬
menon, as great and stupendous as it is, depends upon
this celestial appearance—Venus or Mercury with
Jupiter.”
When the fearful earthquake happened at Lisbon, on
the 1st of November, 1755, the geocentric longitude of
Jupiter was 187° 31', and that of Saturn was 293° 3';
Mars was in opposition to Saturn (and 1? being in
tropical signs); Venus and the Sun were nearly con¬
joined in Scorpio ; and Uranus was in Pisces (the
ruling sign of Portugal). At the time of the earthquake
(between nine aud ten o’clock in the forenoon), Jupiter
was in opposition to the longitude ( T 7°) in which the
Moon was eclipsed on the previous 27th of March.
In Urania for February 1880, the writer called M.
Delauney’s attention to the entry of Jupiter and Saturn
into Taurus in 1881, and said that this phenomenon
would produce great earthquakes. The earthquake at
Chios (Scio), in the Archipelago, on the 3rd of April,
1881, which destroyed 4,000 lives and injured 1,500
other persons, occurred just as Jupiter and Saturn
entered Taurus (in the manner described by Ptolemy),
the ruling sign of the Archipelago.
On the 12th of June, 1881, thirty-four villages and
one hundred lives were destroyed by an earthquake in
Armenia. Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune were
EARTHQUAKES.
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assembled in Taurus (the ruling sign of Armenia),
within the space of eight degrees.
On the 22nd of July, 1881, when Mars was in con¬
junction with Jupiter in Taurus, violent shocks of
earthquake were felt in Switzerland (the sharpest since
1854), at Lyons, and at Grenoble.
The severe earthquake at Agram on the 9th of
November, 1880, coincided with the opposition of Mars
and Neptune. The severest shock preceded by only
two hours the exact opposition of these planets, viz. at
10 h 3.7 m a.m., mean time at Agram. The longitude of
Mars at the opposition was Scorpio 12° 46' 45", that of
Neptune Taurus 12° 46' 45". The severest shock was
felt at a quarter before eight o’clock in the morning, at
which moment Uranus was exactly culminating in the
14th degree of Virgo (the ruling sign of Croatia),
and the 27th degree of the sign Scorpio was in the
ascendant.
On the 6th of March, 1867, there was an annular
eclipse of the Sun, visible in Asia Minor. Zadkiel
foretold that earthquakes in Asia Minor would follow
on the heels of that eclipse. On the same day, a fearful
earthquake happened at Mytelene, at six o’clock p.m.
Shocks, more or less severe, were felt, on the 7th or 8th
of the same month, over a great part of the Levant, and
in some of the Aegean islands. Smyrna, Magnesia,
Adramiti, Aivali, Gallipoli, and Constantinople were
more or less shaken. Twenty thousand houses and
public buildings, and more than two thousand lives were
destroyed in Mytelene. At the eclipse, Saturn was
retrograde in Scorpio and in square aspect with Jupiter
in Aquarius.
The frequency of the occurrence of earthquakes
when the larger planets are passing through Taurus or
Scorpio, or in the equator or one of the tropics, cannot
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SCIENCE or THE STAES.
fail to strike the unprejudiced mind. These coinci¬
dences so oft repeated suggest a possible and probable
connexion—in fact, that the planetary positions de¬
scribed are the exciting causes of earthquakes.
It would be out of place here to discuss the various
theories that have been advanced as to the true cause
of earthquakes. It is a singular fact that a writer in
the Quarterly Review for July, 1881, advances the
theory that the cause of earthquakes is electrical —the
very theory advanced by the late Commander Morrison,
11.N., in Zadkiel's Almanac for 1868, pp. 50-53.
Here is Commander Morrison’s theory briefly given
in his own words:—
“ It is this absurd theory of a universal fire in the
middle of the earth which blinds our savans to the true
cause of earthquakes. We will here declare the true
causes of these fearful phenomena, which have been
long since seen by Stukesly. Everybody knows that if
we charge a Leyden jar with electricity, that when it is
fully charged it will discharge itself. Now electricity
is almost constantly coming into the earth from the air,
or going from the earth into the air; and when it ac¬
cumulates in a given place, it will then discharge itself,
as does the Leyden jar. The result is a shock, more or
less severe, of earthquake. If slight, it may derange
the internal structure, perhaps many miles deep, and
then a rumbling noise is heard. If this be not heard
and the shock be severe, it tears up and rives to pieces
the most solid rocks, and laughs at the puny buildings
of mortal man. Such was the case recently in the fair
island of Mytelene.
“ It very frequently occurs in the vicinity of volcanoes,
both active and extinct; and in such cases the discharge
of electricity, as we have ourselves frequently witnessed
at Naples, Lipari, and Etna, is attended with thunder
EARTHQUAKES.
63
and lightning, hail, rain, and Sudden gusts of wind, just
similar to such phenomena in England.
“ If we be right in our theory, that earthquakes are
caused by accumulations of electricity, then it follows,
that if there be a cause constantly, or nearly constantly,
happening to carry off the electricity and prevent its
accumulation, there will be never - any very serious
results from the discharge in that locality. Now, in
England we have very frequent, and we may say, almost
constant rains. These operate to carry away the
electric fluid (which comes to us from the air) and con¬
duct it into the rivers and thence into the sea. The
same effects are produced by the rains and snows in
Kussia, Holland, and some other countries. It is chiefly
in the parts of the earth subject to much heat and
drought, that these dire events of sudden and fearful
earthquakes or discharges of electricity take place. If
any shocks occur, as they sometimes do in England, it
will always be found that they succeed long and extra¬
ordinary droughts, which are, fortunately for us, very
rare. The character of electricity is very peculiar. It
acts always instantaneously. It flies across the Atlantic
in something less than a hundredth of a second. A few
yeaVs since there was a violent shock of earthquake in
the West Indies and the Arkansas (fully 2,000 miles
asunder) at the same instant of time 1 In fine, earth¬
quakes have all the characteristics of electric discharges.
There is nothing absurd or improbable in their being
produced thereby. Whereas the theory that supposes
a vast internal fire raging at all times in the centre of
the earth, has nothing to commend it to our notice and
has much that shocks our common sense.”
The writer in the Quarterly Review says: “ Consider¬
ing the irresistible force, the unmeasured rapidity, the
quick repetition and long duration of the shocks, what
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
known agent in nature, We would ask, except electricity
is capable of producing at the same time such singular
effects in the sea and such tremendous results on
land ?”
Drs. Priestly and Stukesly attributed earthquakes to
electricity, but they were unable to explain how they
were brought about. Planetary influence, alone, can
supply the clue.
On the 17th of May, 1882, there will be a total
eclipse of the Sun in the sign Taurus 26° 15'. The
luminaries will then be but 9° 10' separated from the
conjunction with Saturn. On the 8th of September,
1882, Saturn will be stationary in 26° 11' of Taurus,
i.e. in the very place of the eclipse. Earthquakes in
Asia Minor, in the Archipelago, and in Persia ,may be
expected about the 17th of May and the 8th of Septem¬
ber, 1882.
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CHAPTER XII.
GENETHLIALOGY.
“ Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven,
If in your bright leaves we would read the fate
Of men and empires—’tis to be forgiven
That, in our aspirations to be great.
Our destinies o’erleap their mortal state.
And claim a kindred with you; for ye are
A beauty and a mystery, and create
In us such love and reverence from afar.
That fortune, fame, power, life, have named
themselves a star.”— Bybon.
Planetary influence upon individuals is pretty generally
discredited and ridiculed. Even many who admit that
evidence appears to point very strongly to planetary
influence on the atmosphere and weather-changes,
thereby affecting mankind indirectly at least, draw the
line at nativity-casting. This cannot be wondered at,
for primd fucie it does seem absurd that the accidental
positions of the heavenly bodies at the moment of
birth of a child should influence his health, fortunes,
affections, and disposition, throughout his earthly
career.
Lord Bacon, while advocating an Astrologia Sana ,
once regarded as “ an idle figment ” the “ doctrine of
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
horoscopes and houses,” and the calculation of nativities
as altogether superstitious (lib. vi,, cap. 3); but he
afterwards averred that “ astrological knowledge gives
us some apt distinctions of men’s dispositions, accord¬
ing to the predominance of the planets” (lib. vii.,
cap. 3).
Kepler pursued genethliacal astrology. We are in •
formed that “ though on behalf of the world he worked
at astronomy, for his own daily bread he was in the
employ of astrology, making almanacks and drawing
horoscopes that he might live.” 1 Were there no truth
whatever in judicial astrology, and were the practice of
it a fraud as its enemies aver, so honest a man as Kepler
could never have practised it. He cannot be classed as
either a fool or a knave,” and we may rest assured
that were astrology false he would have discovered and
proclaimed it to be so. To so clever a man as Kepler
other means of earning his daily bread were open, and
the insinuation of Mr. Blake that Kepler only practised
astrology from necessity, and at the cost of his honesty
and dignity, is unfounded and discreditable. In their
anxiety to prove (without examination be it remem¬
bered) astrology to be false, its enemies appear to be
careless of whose reputation may suffer through their
hasty condemnation of the art.
As Stahl said: “It is foolish to make that a matter
of discussion which any one may decide by experi¬
ment.”
Let us leave the discussion forum and pass into the
laboratory. Before commencing our experiments, how-
1 “Astronomical Myths,” based on Flammarion’s
of the Heavens,” by John F. Blake,
and Co., 1877.
‘ History
London: Macmillan
GENETHLIALOGT.
67
ever, we must make ourselves thoroughly acquainted
with the symbols of our science:—
8
0 The Sun. T Aries.
]) The Moon. Q Taurus.
5 Mercury. n Gemini,
j Venus. ss Cancer.
$ Mars. SI Leo.
1/ Jupiter. lip Virgo.
Saturn. Libra.
^ Uranus. Tq Scorpio.
Neptune. f Sagittarius.
Yf Capricornus.
rz Aquarius.
X Pisces.
The division of the heavens into twelve “ houses ” has
been already described at pp. 10-11. The process em¬
ployed in casting the horoscope will be delineated in the
next chapter.
<3 Conjunction.
Sextile.
□ Quadrature.
A Trine.
g Opposition.
S Ascending node.
Descending node.
Degrees.
Minutes of Arc.
Seconds of Arc.
by Google
CHAPTER XIII.
ON CASTING THE HOROSCOPE.
“ To whom the heavens, in thy nativity.
Adjudged an olive branch and laurel crown.
As likely to be blest in peace and war.”
Shakespeare.
The horoscope must be cast for the true moment of
birth— i.e., when the child first cries. When the birth¬
place is remote from London the Greenwich mean time
(which is now kept, under the name of “ railway time,”
throughout England and Wales) must be corrected to
local time by adding four minutes for every degree of
east longitude the birthplace may happen to be from
Greenwich, or subtracting four minutes for every degree
of west longitude, from the Greenwich mean time.
1. The Nautical Almanac 1 or ZadkieVs Ephemcris
for the year of birth will show the amount of sidereal
time at the mean noon preceding the time of birth.
Write this down. Add to this the number of hours
and minutes that have elapsed since the preceding noon.
Add also the correction for the difference between mean
and sidereal time at the rate of 9.8G 8 per hour. If the
sum exceed 24 h reject this amount. Then, the sum is
the Right-Ascension of the meridian at the moment of
birth. Having drawn a circle in the manner before
described,
2. With a “ Table of Houses ” for the nearest lati¬
tude, find the nearest right-ascension to that which you
have obtained, and mark the values therein given on
the cusps (beginnings) of the several houses, the
numbers of which are given at the heads of the columns
respectively, entering on the opposite houses the same
degrees of the opposite signs.
1 The Nautical Almanac does not give the geocentric
longitudes of the planets, but it gives their apparent R.A.
and dec.
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3. Reduce the longitudes of the Sun, Moon, and
planets, by proportion, from the Ephemeris, to the
moment of birth (corrected to Greenwich mean time);
and place their symbols in the proper houses (which
may be readily done by noting that the degrees pass
over the cusps of the houees from left to right).
4. Reduce the declinations of the Sun, Moon, and
planets, by proportion, from the Ephemeris (or from a
table of declinations), to the moment of birth.
Example: —Let it be required to compute the horo¬
scope of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India.
The official bulletin published in the Courier stated
that her birth took place at 4 h 15 m am., of May 24th,
1819, at Kensington Palace.
The following is the process:—
h. m. s.
Sidereal time at at noon of May 23rd, 1819 4 1 1'2
Add time elapsed since. 16 15 0
Add diff. mean and sidereal time. 0 2 40 - 2
R.A. of meridian at birth . = 20 18 4T4
In the Table of Houses for London we find that the
nearest R.A. to this is 20 b 17 m 3 a , and that this gives
Gemini 5^° in the ascendant. If worked out by
“ Formula I” given in the “ Text-Book of Astrology,”
vol. i., p. 241, the ascendantis n 5° 58' 7". Mark
this on the line representing the ascendant, and its
opposite f 5° 58' 7'' on the cusp of the descendant.
Referring again to the tables we shall find that we have
to place on the cusp of the second house n 26°; on
the third, 25 13°; on the fourth, Leo 2°; on the fifth,
Q 27°; and on the sixth, £2 7°; and the opposite signs
on the opposite houses. Four signs are found “ inter¬
cepted,” irp in the fifth house, X in the eleventh, 77f
in the sixth, and O in the twelfth. From either the
Nautical Almanac or White's Ephemeris for 1819,
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the longitudes of the Sun, Moon, and planets will now
have to be computed, by proportion, for the moment
of birth. The Sun at noon of May 23rd, was in II
1° 27' 53", and on May 21th, n 2° 25' 32"; his motion
in 24 h was 57' 39". By proportion: As 24 h to 16J b so
57' 39" to 39' 4", which added to the Sun’s long, at
noon of May 23rd gives n 2° 6' 57" as his long, at the
moment of birth. In like manner, the longitudes of the
Moon and planets will have to be computed. Then
their symbols and longitudes will have to be entered in
the proper signs and houses, and the horoscope will be
complete:—
Fig. 4.
M.C.
ON CASTING THE HOROSCOPE.
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Those of my readers who are conversant with trigo¬
nometry will be able to make these calculations quickly
and easily. Those who are not so far advanced need
not attempt any great exactness at first, the primary
object being to comprehend the method of computation,
which is really very simple.
It will be observed that the Sun and Moon had just
risen at the birth of Her Majesty; Jupiter was in the
midheaven and in sextile aspect with Mars. These are
very fortunate positions, indeed, and they were the
(astrological) signs of the accession of our good Queen
to the throne and of her brilliant and fortunate reign.
The lines of Shakespeare, quoted at the head of this
chapter, are peculiarly appropriate to Her Majesty’s
nativity.
5 The lat. of the birthplace is 51° 30' 25 "n., the long. 51'w.
The B.A. of the M.C. in arc is 304° 40' 22". The declination of
the ascending degree is 19° 38' 51 "n.
The latitudes of the Moon and planets are computed from the
Nautical Almanac; their declination, right ascension and semi¬
arcs, from the tables given in the “ Text-Book of Astrology.”
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CHAPTER XIY.
ON FORMING A GENERAL JUDGMENT
CONCERNING A NATIVITY.
“ What potent spirit guides the raptured eye
To pierce the shades of dim futurity?”
Campbell.
The horoscope being cast, the next problem is to
decipher its signification.
The primary question is, necessarily, the probable
duration of life, which, as Ptolemy remarked, is distinct
from the question of rearing.
A healthy and well-developed child, born at full term,
has, generally speaking, a good chance of life, barring
accidents.
A puny, weakly, sickly child, born prematurely, has
but a poor chance of life. The reader will say it needs
no astrological knowledge to teach or confirm this.
However, many apparently healthy children, with
every circumstance in their favour, succumb to infantile
disease even before the period ot dentition. On the
other hand, many puny and sickly children have been
reared by careful nursing and judicious treatment. It
is these cases that form a fair and proper basis for
testing the truth of astrological aphorisms as to the
probable duration of life.
In cases of congenital disease proving fatal within a
very short period after birth, it cannot fairly be ex¬
pected that the horoscope should in every case indicate
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the early death of the infant. It is in the case of
disease (or accident) coming on after birth, that we
should expect the horoscope to pre-signify the evil.
Claudius Ptolemy says:—
“ If either of the two luminaries be in an angle, and
one of the malefics [Mars and Saturn, to which we may
now add Uranus] be either in conjunction with that
luminary, or else distant in longitude from each
luminary in an exactly equal space, so as to form the
point of junction of two equal sides of a triangle, of
which two sides the luminaries form the extremities ;
while, at the same time, no benefic (Venus or Jupiter)
planet may partake in the configuration, and while
the rulers of the luminaries may be also posited in
places belonging to the malefics, the child then born
will not be susceptible of nurture, but will immedi¬
ately perish."
Here is an aphorism that can be readily tested if we
can only procure sufficient data beyond dispute. Un¬
fortunately, accoucheurs do not usually record the exact
moment of birth of the children they bring into the
world. However, we have one such case given in a
medical journal:—
Case 1.—The Medical Press and Circular, Decem¬
ber 26th, 1877, gave the moment of birth (viz. 3 h 40 m
p.m. of November 20th, 1877) of a child born at the
Rotunda Lying-In Hospital, Dublin. The mother, who
was only nineteen years old, suffered with puerperal
convulsions. The child (female) was “ very puny and
feeble,” and “ very great difficulty was experienced in
establishing respiration, artificial respiration being kept
up for nearly five hours before natural respiration was
fully established;” but the child lived “only for about
twenty hours.”
The latitude of Dublin is 53° 23' N., and the longi-
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tude 6° 20' W. of Greenwich. According to the Nautical
Almanac for 1877, the sidereal time at noon of Novem¬
ber 20th was . 15 h 58 m 25 - 28 s
Add correction for long, of Dublin ... 0 0 4 77
Sidereal time at Dublin.= 15 58 30'05
Add time of birth . 3 40 0
Add diff. mean and sidereal time . 0 0 36T4
R.A. of M.C. at birth=294° 46' 33" or 19 39 6-19
As the horoscope is given in the “ Text-Book of
Astrology,” vol. i., p. 54, there is no need to reproduce
it here. Reference to it will show the ascendant to be
0 24° 44'; the Moon rising in 0 25° 18', in opposi¬
tion to the Sun in the western angle, in Hi 28° 29' 15",
and in square aspect to the planet Uranus in Q 29° 23'.
The Sun (hyleg) has no assistance from either Venus or
Jupiter; the Moon has the par. dec. of Jupiter (and
this accounts for the recovery of the mother).
In this horoscope the evil Uranus is found distant
from each luminary in an exactly equal space (90°),
and the Sun is an angle. Thus do we find Ptolemy’s
aphorism borne out in a very remarkable manner, for
the afflicting planet is one that was unknown to Ptolemy.
Everything was done for the child that surgical skill
could suggest, yet, the heavens at birth being consti¬
tuted in the manner described by Ptolemy, the child
was “ insusceptible of nurture ’’ and did “ immediately
perish.”
Case 2.—A female infant was born at 3 h 20 m p.m.
of February 1st, 1874, in lat. 54° 54' N., and long.
1° 24' W. The R.A. of the meridian was 0 h 6 m 38.2 s .
The ascendant was s 29°. The Moon was in the ascen¬
dant, in$14° 12', in conjunction with Uranus, in Q
8° 24', retrograde, and in opposition to the Sun, in 55
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12° 40'. The Sun was in conjunction with Mercury,
in 52 11° 15', with Venus, in 52 7° 21', and with Saturn,
in 22 5° 59'. In this case, the Sun (hyleg) was in con¬
junction with one of the benefics (Venus), but the good
influence was vitiated by her (Venus’s) conjunction
with Saturn and her opposition with Uranus. The
child died on the 19th of February, 1874, of marasmus
(congenital). In this horoscope the affliction is by
conjunction of the malefics with the Sun and Moon;
and, therefore, it is in accordance with Ptolemy’s
aphorism.
Case 3.—A male child, “ J. Y.,” was born on the
26th of October, 1874, at 6 h 25 m a.m., in lat. 54° 54'
N., long. 1° 25' W. R.A. of meridian 8 h 42 m 51.58 s
or 130° 42' 54". Ascendant 27°. The Suu in the
ascendant, inni2° 41' 28" in square aspect with Saturn
(in the lower meridian), in 52 7° 49'. The Moon in the
western angle, in 0 16° 24', in square with Saturn, and
in square with Uranus, also, in Q15° O'. In this case
the accoucheur had to keep up artificial respiration for
twenty minutes before natural respiration was fully
established The child was well developed and appa¬
rently healthy, but he enly lived 35 hours. The
mother died (of pneumonia) two days after delivery.
In this horoscope both Saturn and Uranus attack the
Sun and Moon from angles , and the luminaries have
no assistance from either of the benefic planets.
The writer has examined many hundreds of horo¬
scopes, and the foregoing are the only instances in
which he has found such positions as those described
by Ptolemy in his aphorism.
How different was the fate of Goethe, who was born
under happier configurations! In his “Autobiography”
the poet says:—
“ On the 28th of August, 1749, at mid-day, as the
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clock struck twelve, I came into the world, at Frankfort-
on-the-Maine. My horoscope was propitious; the Sun
stood in the sign of the Virgin, and had culminated for
the day; Jupiter and Venus looked on him with a
friendly eye, and Mercury not adversely; while Saturn
and Mars kept themselves indifferent; the Moon alone,
just full, exerted the power of her reflection all the
more, as she had reached her planetary hour. She
opposed herself, therefore, to my birth, which could not
be accomplished until this hour was passed.
“ These good aspects, which the astrologers managed,
subsequently, to reckon very auspicious for me, may
have been the causes of my preservation; for through
tlie unskilfulness of the midwife, I came into the world
as dead, and only after various efforts was I enabled to
see the light.”
The horoscope of Goethe is given in the “ Text-Book
of Astrology,” vol. i., p. 56. An inspection of it will
show that the Sun was in the meridian attended by
Venus, and the Moon was in the lower meridian
attended by Jupiter. The luminaries were unafflicted
and were supported by the fortunes.
The danger from asphyxia was, no doubt, due (astro-
logically speaking) to the planet Saturn being in the
ascendant in the hour before noon. Indeed, it is open
to doubt whether the danger was due to the unskiliul-
ness of the midwife. It will be observed that Goethe
says that his preservation may have been due [under
God] to the positions of the benefic planets.
Sir Isaac Newton’s birth was premature, and he was
so diminutive when born, and apparently so feeble, that
he was not expected to live many hours. Yet he sur¬
vived and exceeded even the average term of human
existence. He was born “ between one and two o’clock
in the morning of the 25th of December (old style),
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1642.”* Neither of the luminaries was in an angle,
and neither was afflicted (with the exception that the
Moon had the sesquiquadrate of Uranus); the Sun
having the sextile of Jupiter.
In regard to children dying in infancy from diseases
which may or may not have been congenital, or from
accidents; in all the horoscopes examined by him the
writer has never found one that was free from severe
affliction. This is a very striking fact, for it is the out¬
come of an experience extending over twenty-two years.
Moreover, the writer is in constant correspondence with
several medical gentlemen who always send him the
particulars of remarkable births.
It has been stated that there are three planets—Mars,
Saturn, and Uranus—of evil influence, and two—Venus
and Jupiter—of benefic influence. Mercury and the
Moon are convertible— i.e., of good influence when with
the benefic, and of evil influence when with the malefic
planets. The Sun is of benefic influence, but when in
evil configuration with the raalefics, his good influence
becomes deteriorated. This preponderance of evil
influence over the good may partly account for the fact
that half the children born die under ten years old.
The ancients observed that Saturn’s influence was par¬
ticularly fatal to children, hence the fable arose that
Saturn devoured his own children. Lempriere says:
“ Saturn always devoured his sons as soon as born.
The god is generally represented as an old man; in his
left hand he holds a child, which he raises up, as if
instantly to devour it.”
Despite the utmost care, diseases of a dangerous
nature, and accidents of a violent kind, occasionally
1 “Memoirs of the Life, "Writings, and Discoveries of Sir
Isaac Newton.” By Sir David Brewster, K.H.
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happen to children, and place their lives in the greatest
jeopardy, if they do not actually prove fatal. Can
astrology forewarn the loving parents of times of danger
to their children ? Does the science afford the physician
a certain prognosis ? The votaries of it will answer
these questions in the affirmative. It is important to
know if there be any grounds for such confident
assurances; for, if so, then the world is unwittingly
neglecting priceless foreknowledge, and the refusal to
accept it becomes a blunder.
It is related in the “ Life of Dryden ” that he was
much addicted to judicial astrology, and that he used to
cast the horoscopes of his children. At his request, the
birth of his son Charles was accurately noted. Dryden
cast the horoscope. When his lady was pretty well
recovered, Dryden informed her that the child was born
at an unlucky hour, for the Sun, Venus, and Jupiter
were all below the earth, and the ruler of the ascendant
was afflicted by the square aspect of both Mars and
Saturn. “ If he arrives at eight years,” said Dryden,
“ he will be in danger of a violent death on his birth¬
day anniversary; if he should then escape, I see but
small hopes. He will in his twenty-third year be again
under evil directions, and should he again escape, the
thirty third or thirty-fourth year, I fear, is-.” Here
the poet was interrupted by the grief of his lady who
could not bear to hear of so much calamity likely to
befal her son. Just before the child entered his eighth
year, the poet was invited to the country seat of the
Earl of Berkshire (his brother-in law) at Charlton in
Wilts; he took Charles with him. Dryden, perhaps
through fear of being looked upon as superstitious, was
very cautious of allowing anyone to know that he was a
votary of astrology, and therefore could not excuse his
absence on his son’s anniversary from a hunting party
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Lord Berkshire had invited. However, before going
out, he took care to set Charles a double Latin exercise,
with a very strict injunction not to stir out of the room
until his return. Charles was carefully doing his
exercise when, as ill-fate would have it, the stag made
towards the house, and the noise alarming the servants,
they all hastened out to see the sport, one of them taking
young Dryden by the hand and leading him out. Just
as they came to the gate, the stag being at bay, made a
bold rush and leaped over the court-wall, which was
very low and very old, and the dogs following threw
down part of the wall, ten yards in length, under which
Charles lay buried. He was immediately dug out, and
after languishing for six weeks in a dangerous state, he
recovered. In his twenty-third year, Charles, being
seized with giddiness, the heat of the day being excessive,
fell from the top of an old tower belonging to the
Vatican at Rome. He again partly recovered, but was
ever after in a delicate state. In his thirty-third year
he was, unfortunately, drowned at Windsor. Thus were
the poet’s calculations only too sadly verified. It is a
pity that a copy of Charles Dryden’s horoscope is not
procurable.
To return to Ptolemy’s observations. He says:—
“ Of all events whatsoever which take place after
birth, the most essential is the continuance of life; and
as it is, of course, useless to consider, in cases wherein
the life of a child does not extend to the period of one
year, what other events contingent on its birth might
otherwise have subsequently happened, the inquiry
into the duration of life consequently takes precedence
of all other questions. The discussion of this inquiry
is by no means simple, nor easy of execution; it is con¬
ducted in a diversified process, by means of the govern¬
ance of the ruling places.”
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The hylegliacal (vital) places are, according to
Ptolemy,—
“ The sign on the angle of the ascendant, from the
fifth degree above the horizon to the twenty-fifth degree
below it; the eleventh, tenth, and ninth houses; and,
lastly, the seventh house.” The Sun is hyleg when
situated in one of the hylegliacal places; when the Sun
is not so situated, but the Moon is, then she is hyleg;
when neither the Sun nor the Moon happens to be in
any one of those places, then the ascendant is hyleg.
The Moon has always much influence over the physical
faculties.
The liability to diseases and accidents is judged from
the planets rising or setting, and those configurated with
the hyleg. If the hyleg be free from affliction and
supported by the benefics, and no evil planet be rising
or setting, the physical constitution is said to be sound,
healthy, and robust. When, however, the hyleg is
afflicted and unsupported by the benefics, then early
death is too likely to take place. When the Sun, Moon,
and ascendant are afflicted by more than one of the
malefics, a liability to accidents and a violent or sudden
death is incurred; the greatest effects being connected
with angular positions.
“ Such parts of the signs,” says Ptolemy, “ as contain
the afflicted part of the horizon, will show in what part
of the body the misfortune will exist, whether it be a
hurt, or disease, or both; and the natures of the planets,
in operating the misfortune, also regulate its particular
form or species. For, among the chief parts of the
human body, Saturn rules the right ear, the spleen, the
bladder, the phlegm, and the bones; Jupiter governs
the hand, the lungs, and the arteries; Mars, the left
ear, the kidneys, the veins, and the reproductive organs;
the Sun rules the eyes, the brain, the heart, the nerves,
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and all the right side; Yenus, the liver, the flesh, and
the nostrils; Mercury, the speech, the understanding,
the bile, and the tongue; the Moon, the palate, the
throat, the stomach, the abdomen, the uterus, and all
the left side.
“ Blindness of one eye will ensue when the Moon
may be in either the ascendant or descendant, either
operating her conjunction or being at the full: it will
also happen should she be configurated with the Sun in
any other proportional aspect, and be at the same time
connected with any of the nebulous clusters in the
zodiac, such as the cloudy spot of Cancer, the Pleiades
of Taurus, the arrow-head of Sagittarius, the sting of
Scorpio, the parts about the mane of Leo, or the urn of
Aquarius. Moreover, both eyes will be injured should
the Moon be in an angle, and in her decrease, and Mars
or Saturn, being matutine, ascend in succession to her.
Or again, if the Sun be in angle, and these planets
ascend before him, and be configurated with both the
luminaries, whether the luminaries be in one and the
same sign, or in opposition; provided, also, the said
planets, although oriental of the Sun, be occidental of
the Moon. Under these circumstances, therefore, Mars
will cause blindness by a stroke or blow, or by the
sword, or by burning; and, if he be configurated with
Mercury, it will be effected either in a place of exercise
or sport, or by the assault of robbers. Saturn, however,
under the same circumstances, produces blindness by
cataract, or cold, by a white film, or by other similar
disorders.
“ If Saturn and Mercury, in conjunction with the
Sun, be in one of the before-mentioned angles, the
native will have some defect in the tongue, and stammer
or speak with difficulty: especially if Mercury be occi¬
dental, and both he and Saturn configurated with the
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Moon. Should Mars, however, be found together with
them, he will for the most part remove the defect in
the tongue, after the Moon shall have completed her
approach to him.
“ Further, should the malefics be in angles, and the
luminaries, either together or in opposition, be brought
up to them; or if the malefics be brought up to the
luminaries [by direction], especially when the Moon
may be in her node, or in extreme latitude, or in
obnoxious sigus such as Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio,
and Capricorn, the body will then be afflicted with
excrescences, distortions, lameness, or paralysis.
“ If the malefics be in conjunction with the lumi¬
naries, the calamity will take effect from the very
moment of birth : but should they be in the midheaven,
in elevation above the luminaries, or in opposition to
each other, it will then arise out of some great and
dangerous accident, such as a fall from a height or
precipice, an attack of robbers or of quadrupeds. And
thus, if Mars hold daminion, he will produce the mis¬
fortune by means of fire or wounds, through quarrels or
by robbers; and if Saturn, it will be caused by a fall,
by shipwreck, or by convulsive fits or spasms.
“ The minor bodily disorders mostly occur on the
Moon being posited in a tropical or equinoctial sign.
“ Considerable diseases, however, take effect when the
malefics may be configurated in the same situations as
those before described, yet differing in one respect; that
is to say, being occidental of the Sun and oriental of the
Moon. In such cases, Saturn will generally produce
spasmodic colic, phlegm, rheumatism, emaciatiou, sickli¬
ness, jaundice, dysentery, cough, obstruction, or scurvy;
and, in women, besides these diseases, uterine disorders.
Mars will cause expectoration of blood, rupture of blood¬
vessels, pulmonary attacks, atrabilarious attacks, ulcers,
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diseases of the generative and urinary organs, fistula,
etc.; in women, to these calamities, he adds abortion,
uterine haemorrhage, excision of the foetus or its morti¬
fication.
“ Mercury, when acting with them, will contribute to
the increase of the evil: thus, if he be in familiarity
with Saturn he will greatly augment the coldness, and
promote the continuance of rheumatism, and the dis¬
turbance of the fluids ; especially in the chest, throat,
and stomach. If in familiarity with Mars, he will tend
to procure greater dryness, and will render worse ulcers,
abscesses, loss of hair, erysipelas, tetters, insanity,
epilepsy, and similar disorders.
“ Under the circumstances above detailed, the disease
or hurt will be incurable, 2 provided there shall not be
one of the benefics in configuration with the malefics
which effect the evil, nor with the luminaries posited in
angles; and even though the benefics may be so con¬
figurated, the misfortune will still be incapable of
remedy if the malefics be well fortified, and in elevation
above them.
“ Should the benefics, however, hold principal situa¬
tions, and be in elevation above the obnoxious malefics,
the disease or hurt will then be moderate, and have
neither deformity nor disgrace attached to it; and it
will sometimes be altogether prevented and set aside, if
the benefics be oriental. Jupiter, for instance, by means
of human aid, such as wealth and rank can command,
will conceal and soothe hurts and diseases ; and, if
Mercury be joined with him, the assistance will be
further improved by the addition of skilful doctors
and good medicine. Venus, likewise, will ameliorate
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diseases by medicine. Lastly, should Saturn be present
in the configuration, the afflicted persons will move
abroad to show their maladies, and to complain; and, if
Mercury also be present, they will do so for the sake of
deriving support and profit from the exhibition.”
In the “Text-Book of Astrology,” vol. i., pp. 127-
135, the student will find many cases given in illustra¬
tion of these aphorisms. I have never yet found a single
case of privation of sight, nor of epilepsy, nor of insanity,
nor of any of the forms of consumption, in which the
horoscope was not in complete accordance with the rules
laid down by Ptolemy. I have repeatedly challenged
those who condemn judicial astrology to put these rules
to the test by obtaining the moment of birth of persons
who were born blind or became so soon after birth, of
insane persons, and of epileptics, on condition that the
result, whether pro or con, shall be published to the
world. The presence of the afflicting planet in the sign
Ames is said to cause the head and face to be chiefly
affected. In Taurus, the throat. In Gemini, the arms
and shoulders. In Cancer, the chest, stomach, and
breasts. In Leo, the heart and spine. In Virgo, the
intestinal canal, and viscera of the abdomen. In Libra,
the reins, loins, and bladder. In Scorpio, the genera¬
tive organs. In Sagittarius, the hips and thighs, and
the os sacrum. In Capricornus, the knees. In Aquarius,
the legs and ankles. In Pisces, the feet and toes. In
fiery signs ( T, Cl , and f ), generally acute fevers; violent
accidents. In earthy signs (0, rtp, and y f), chronic
diseases, and consumption. In airy signs (n, and ss)
diseases of the blood and skin. In watery signs (25,111,
andx), diseases of the lungs, and all that proceed from
taking cold; accidents by water.
Ptolemy says: “ Pierce not with iron that part of the
body which may be governed by the sign actually
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occupied by the Moon.” This may be superstitious,
but it would be advisable for operating surgeons to
observe it when possible. An Ephemeris will show
what sign the Moon occupies. I well remember a case
of ovariotomy performed, by a very skilful surgeon, on
the 13th of December, 1865, when the Moon was
passing through Scorpio and applying to conjunction
with Saturn. The poor woman died on the following
day. Now, ovariotomy is an operation that can be
delayed until a “ favourable time.” As Solomon said,
there is “ a time to kill and a time to heal.” Ovari¬
otomy is a very serious and dangerous operation, yet it
is performed with wonderful success now-a-days. When
possible, it would certainly be wise to choose for opera¬
tions those days when the Moon is favourably con¬
figurated with Jupiter or Venus, and to eschew those
days on which she is in evil aspect with Mars, Saturn,
or Uranus. In hospitals it is usual to set apart one
day in the week for major operations that admit of
delay. This could be easily changed when evil con¬
figurations obtain. It would be better to run the risk
of being deemed superstitious than to neglect an obser¬
vance that might give the poor patijnt a better chance
of recovery.
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CHAPTER XY.
ON THE MIND AND DISPOSITION.
" Now since thou hast, although so very a nin.ll ,
Science of arts so glorious! ”
Homer’s Hymn to Mercury.
“ Certainly,” says Bacon, “ there is a consent between
the body and the mind; and where Nature erreth in the
one, she ventureth in the other. TJbi peccat in uno,
periclitatur in altero.”
The planet Mercury has chief dominion over the
mental faculties; the sentient, and the passions, are
governed by the Moon and the ascendant.
Horace asks: “ Why does one brother like to lounge
in the forum, to play in the campus, and to anoint
himself in the bath so well, that he would not put
himself out of the way for all the wealth of the richest
plantations of the East; while the other toils from
sunrise to sunset for the purpose of increasing his
fortune? ” Horace attributes this diversity of character
to the influence of genius and the natal star. The one
is of the Venus type, the other of the Mercurial com¬
bined with the Saturnine.
The late Prince Consort was born with Mercury
rising in the sign Virgo, 1 and this harmonises with his
well-known character, his unwearied industry, his great
talents, and his excellent judgment.
The progressive explorations of physiological and
pathological science have demonstrated intimate bonds
of union between mind and body unsuspected by any
except astrologers.
1 See his horoscope at p. 60, vol. i., of the " Text-Book of
Astrology.”
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Robert Hooke, F.R.S., who was born on the 18th of
July, 1635, at Freshwater, Isle of Wight was, like
Newton, a sickly child. “ His faults were,” says a
writer in the Edinburgh Review (July, 1880), “ warp-
ings of the mind, closely dependent, perhaps, on his
unfortunate physical constitution. In spirit, as well as
in person, Nature had set him somewhat awry. It was
his misfortune that he could neither win sympathy nor
inspire pity. His talents earned for him patronage; but
his peculiarities repelled friendship. He lived sixty-
eight years without attaching to himself a single human
being, and died only to make room for his rival. Yet
his intellectual qualities did not demand admiration more
than his moral failings claimed tenderness. For surely
infirmity has been rarely combined with genius in
more painful and pitiable guise than in Robert Hooke.”
Here we have an instance of a Saturnine mind and
disposition.
Writers on astrology give rules for describing, from
the positions at birth, both the personal appearance and
disposition. In regard to the former, they do not suc¬
ceed so well as in the latter. When a planet is exactly
rising at a birth, its character is strongly impressed
on the child; and when such planet is closely con¬
figurated with the Moon and Mercury the disposition
and mental characteristics are as strongly impressed
as the physical. But when no planet happens to be
rising, the task of describing the personal appearance
(at maturity) is difficult and is not often successfully
achieved.
In the case of the late Prince Consort, Mercury rising
in Virgo, describes his personal appearance very closely;
and, again, in the case of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales,
Jupiter rising in Sagittaiy exactly describes his per¬
sonal appearance.
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Generally speaking, Ptolemy’s aphorisms as to the
influence of the several planets on the “ form and tem¬
perament of the body,” are pretty well borne out:—
“ Saturn, when oriental [t e., within 5° of the ascen¬
dant], acts on the personal figure by producing a yellowish
complexion and a good constitution; with black or
curled hair, a broad and stout chest, eyes of ordinary
quality, and a proportionate size of body, the tempera¬
ment of which is compounded principally of moisture
and cold.
“Jupiter, oriental, makes the person white or fair,
with a clear complexion, moderate growth of hair, and
large eyes, and of good and dignified stature ; the tem¬
perature being chiefly of heat and moisture.
“ Mars, ascending, gives a fair ruddiness to the person,
with large size, a healthy constitution, blue or grey eyes,
a sturdy figure, and a moderate growth of hair, with a
temperament principally of heat and dryness. 3
“ Venus operates in a manner similar to that of
Jupiter, but at the same time more becomingly and
more gracefully; producing qualities of a nature more
applicable to women and female beauty, such as softness
and greater delicacy. She also particularly makes the
eyes beautiful, and renders them of an azure tint.
“ Mercurt, when oriental, makes the personal figure
of a yellowish complexion, and of stature proportionate
and well-shaped, with small eyes and a moderate growth
of hair ; and the bodily temperament is chiefly hot.
“ The Sun and Moon, when configurated with any
one of the planets, also co-operate: the Sun adds a
greater nobleness to the figure, and increases the healthi¬
ness of the constitution; and the Moon generally con-
5 I have always found, when Mars is exactly rising at
birth, that there is a mark or scar in the face, near the eyes.
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89
tributes better proportion and greater delicacy of figure>
and greater moisture of temperament.”
In regard to mind and disposition:—
“ Saturn, configurated with Mercury, makes men
inquisitive, studious of law and of medicine, mystical,
cunning, familiar with business, meditative, petulant,
and fond of employment.
“Jupiter, configurated with Mercury, renders men fit
for much business, fond of learning, and of geometry
and the mathematics ; acute, temperate, well-disposed,
skilful in counsel, beneficent, able in government, pious,
valuable in all useful professions, ready in acquiring
knowledge, philosophical, and dignified.
*• Mars, connected with Mercury, renders men skilful
in command, strenuous, active, obstinate, versatile,
inventive, busy in all things, imposing, deceitful, incon¬
stant, maliciously artful, inquisitive, fond of strife, and
successful.
“ Venus, conciliated with Mercury, makes men lovers
of the arts, philosophical, of scientific mind and good
genius, poetical, delighting in learning and elegance,
polite, voluptuous, luxurious in their habits of life,
merry, friendly, fitted for various arts, intelligent, not
misled by error, quick in learning, self-teaching, copious
and agreeable in speech, serene and sincere in manner,
delighting in exercise, honest, judicious, high-minded.
“ Mercury alone, having dominion of the mind, and
being in a glorious position [i.e. in the ascendant],
renders it prudent, clever, sensible, capable of great
learning, inventive, expert, logical, studious of nature,
speculative, of good genius, emulous, benevolent, skilful
in argument, accurate in conjecture, adapted to sciences
and mysteries, and tractable. But when placed con-
trarily [i.e. weak and afflicted, and without the support
of either of the benefics], he makes men busy in all
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things, precipitate, forgetful, impetuous, frivolous, vari¬
able, regretful, foolish, inconsiderate, void of truth, care¬
less, inconstant, insatiable, avaricious, unjust, and
altogether of slippery intellect, and predisposed to
error.
“To these influences and their effects, as above
detailed, the Moon also contributes; for, should she be
in extreme latitude, she will render the properties of the
mind more various, more versatile in art, and more
susceptible of change: if she be in her node, she will
make them more acute, more practical, and more active.
Also, when in the ascendant, and during the increase of
her illumination, she augments their ingenuity, perspi¬
cuity, firmness and expansion; but, when found in her
decrease, or in occultation, she renders them heavier,
more obtuse, more variable of purpose, more timid, and
more obscure.
“ The Sun likewise co-operates, when conciliated with
the lord of the mental temperament; contributing, if
angularly posited, to increase probity, industry, honour,
and all laudable qualities; but, if adversely situated, he
increases debasement, depravity, obscurity, cruelty,
obstinacy, moroseness, and all other evil qualities.”
Down to the publication of the “ Text-Book of Astro-
logy” (in January, 1880), it was the fashion of writers
on astrology to assert that the Sun in conjunction with
Mercury, at birth, “ destroys the mental abilities of the
native.”
This is a fallacy, as I have shown elsewhere.
The question of insanity was very ably handled by
Mr. A. G. Trent in his treatise on “ The Soul and the
Stars,” which appeared in the University Magazine for
March, 1880, and was mainly reprinted in Urania for
April and May, 1880.
“ Nothing can be simpler,” says Mr. Trent, “ than the
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rules respecting insanity which have come down to us
from Egyptian and Chaldean antiquity. It is, that
mental disease is liable to occur when Mars and Saturn
(to which modern research has added Uranus), are at
birth in conjunction, quadrature, or opposition with
Mercury and the Moon, but Mercury more particularly.
It is by no means asserted that insanity always, or even
often, occurs with such positions; what is asserted is,
that it rarely occurs without it. When controlled by
favourable influences it may even be beneficial, on the
principle that a spice of the devil is a desirable ingre¬
dient in the composition of a good man. When no such
influences exist the most ordinary result is moral
obliquity, a practical demonstration of the profound
truth that wickedness is madness.
“We begin by instancing nine sovereign princes,
notoriously insane or deficient in intellect, upon whose
birthdays Mercury or the Moon, or both, will be found
to have been affected by Mars, Saturn, or Uranus, in
the manner described. They are: Paul, Emperor of
Russia; George III., King of England; Gustavus IV.,
King of Sweden ; Ferdinand II., Emperor of Austria;
Maria, Queen of Portugal; Charlotte, Empress of
Mexico; Charles II., King of Spain ; Murad V., Sultan
of Turkey; and Constantine of Russia (who abdicated
in favour of his brother). The planetary positions,
so far as essential for our present purpose, are as
follow:—
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regard this as the lesser improbability. We therefore
follow up the inquiry by adducing six insane persons
of genius. Gerard de Nerval, who committed suicide
in a fit of insanity; Alfred Bethel, the painter of Der
Tod als Freund; Agnes Bury, the actress; Jullien;
Pugin; and Paul Morphy:—
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“ We next take four instances of highly gifted men
who lost their faculties in old
age:—
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lunatics, the would-be assassins of the late and present
kings of Prussia, and a remarkable case of a female
lunatic described in the Revue des Deux Mondes for
January 15th, 1880:—
Sefeloge.
Nobiling.
March 29, 1821.
April 10, 1848.
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quadrature with Uranus,
and the Moon in semi-quart! le with both; Nobiling,
Mercury in opposition with
Saturn and quartile with
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SCIENCE OP THE STARS.
Mars, the Moon in quartile with Uranus 3 ; Becker,
Mercury in quartile with Uranus, Moon, and Mars, and
the two latter in opposition with the former. The
French lunatic has Mercury in conjunction with Saturn,
and the Moon in quartile with Mars.
“ To recapitulate, we think it has been shown that
quartile and opposition aspects between Mercury and
the Moon on the one hand, and Mars, Saturn, and
Uranus on the other, will be found co-existent either
with insanity or with the quick, restless, and imagina¬
tive temperament most liable to mental disturbance.
This general proposition is of course liable to the most
extensive modifications according to the strength of
these planets at the time of birth, and to the influence
of the benefic planets. It holds equally true of the
affections of the Sun, Moon, and degree ascending as
respects the physical constitution; and of the Sun,
Moon, and meridian as regards success in life. We do
not deny the existence of many difficulties and anomalies,
and fully admit that astral science is incompetent to
explain the divergences of human constitution and
character without a free use of the doctrine of heredity.
Our contention is that the two theories complete each
other, the latter accounting for the element of stability,
the former for the element of variability.
“ It will be conceded that there is nothing occult or
mystical in the line of argument we have been pursuing.
We have appealed throughout to the testimony of facts
of history and biography, partly astronomical observa¬
tions derived from no more recondite source than the
ordinary ephemeris. Any one can verify or disprove
these observations in a moment by the same process;
s At Nobiling’s birth Mars was on the place of Saturn at
the Emperor’s birth.
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95
any one who will be at the trouble to search for ex¬
amples can investigate the subject for himself.”
As Dr. Sharp says : 4 “ The diseases of the body act
through the vital principle upon the mind, and, on the
other hand, the disorders of the mind act through the
same medium upon the body.” When this occurs in a
marked degree, it is found that both the Moon and
Mercury are afflicted by the malefic planets. The term
lunacy is derived from the observations of the ancients
that the Moon was usually afflicted at the birth of
persons who became insane. A remarkable proof of
the influence exerted by the planets on the mental
faculties is afforded in the case of monomania in twins
recorded in the Psychologie Morbide by Dr. J. Moreau
(de Tours), Mfedecin de l’Hospice de Bicetre; and
another, in the case of insanity in twins described by
Dr. Baume, in the Annales Medico-Psychologiques . 6
Born under the same celestial influences, when mania
attacked one of the twins the other quickly fell a victim
to it also.
In order to predicate mens sana in corpore sano, it
is necessary to find in the horoscope that Mercury, the
Moon, the Sun, and the ascendant, are free from afflic¬
tion, and supported by the benefic planets.
* “ Essays on Medicine.”
* 4 Serie, vol. i., 1863, p. 312.
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CHAPTER XVI.
ON DESTINY.
“ Follow bat thy star,
Thou can’st not miss at last a glorious haven;
Unless in fairer days my judgment erred.
And if my fate so early had not chanc’d
Seeing the heavens thus bounteous to thee, I
Had gladly given thee comfort in thy work.”
Dante.
The belief in judicial astrology is not fatalistic. Astro¬
logers have ever taught that the planets agunt, non
cogunt ; they act, nr incline, but nowise compel.
Man has free will to choose his path in life, but he
cannot control his destiny entirely. He may speak of
himself as “ the architect of his own fortune ”—when he
happens to amass wealth. But he who falls into com¬
parative or actual poverty complains of his “ luck.” A
man may “ take up with avarice ” as “ a gentlemanly
vice,” and he will be greatly inclined to do so if Saturn
be his ruling planet—he may make wealth his god; or,
he may despise riches, and leave it to what he calls
“ chance ” whether they come to him or not, directing
his talents to the amelioration of the lot of his unfortu¬
nate fellow-creatures, or to the improvement of science.
He may be a man of pleasure, or he may so over-work
himself as to induce early death. He may be a religious
man or a “ free-thinker.”
The wise man of old observed that “ the race is not
always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither
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97
yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of under¬
standing; nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and
chance [or, literally, time of good events and of evil
events ] happenelh to them all.”
Talent, indomitable energy, pluck, and perseverance,
combined, and favoured with good health, will achieve
wonders, and will enable a man born in an evil hour to
make his mark in the world. Nevertheless, a man
cannot be termed fortunate who has to fight an uphill
battle against tremendous odds. Only the lucky few
find their course of life run smooth.
Astrology shows who are born fortunate and who are
born unfortunate. The use of it is to point out the
career and the part of the world in which success will be
most readily gained.
Many who have been born in the purple have come
to grief, some through no fault of their own. Others,
like Napoleon I., have fought their way from the ranks
to the highest pinnacle of power. Napoleon I. was so
unfortunate as to fall from his proud position: possibly
had Jupiter instead of Saturn been in the midheaven at
his birth, he might have died on the throne.
To succeed in life, easily, and to retain what is won,
it is indispensable that the Sun, Moon, ascendant and
meridian be free from the affliction of the malefics, and
be supported by the benefics. Jupiter located in the
ascendant, second house, or meridian, receiving the
application of the Moon, or configurated with the Sun,
is very fortunate. Saturn so situated, usually brings
ruin or severe misfortune (if not early death) in the
end.
The nativities of the Bourbon family afford a most
striking illustration of this fact. The following letter
was printed in the Spectator, February 22nd, 1802:—
“ The economy of your journal does not permit me to
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print the horoscopes of the Bourbons in full, but I give
the exact times of birth, so that anyone who will bestow
a few hours’ attention on the elementary principles of
astrology may be enabled to draw them for himself.
With the exception of that of Louis Philippe, for which
I do not vouch, these times of birth are all derived from
official documents which anyone who pleases may inspect
at the British Museum.
“Louis XVI., born August 23rd, 1754, at 6 h 24 m
a.m. Mars rising, Uranus setting; Saturn in sesqui-
quadrate aspect with the Sun, also afflicting the Moon,
and the latter, thus rendered malefic, in square aspect
with the Sun, again.
“Marie Antoinette, November 2nd, 1775, 7 h 30 m
p.m. Uranus approaching the meridian in sesquiquad-
rate with the Sun; the Moon exactly between Mars and
Saturn.
“Louis XVII, March 7th, 1785, 7 h p.m. Uranus
in square with the Sun.
“ Princess Elizabeth (guillotined), bom May 3rd,
1764, 2 h a.m. Mars culminating, Saturn in conjunc¬
tion with the Sun.
“Louis XVIII., born November 17th, 1755, 4 h a.m.
Mars in conjunction with the meridian, Saturn in
opposition to both, but Jupiter rising; therefore, after
all his vicissitudes of fortune, he died upon the throne.
“Charles X., born October 9th, 1757, 7 h p.m. Saturn
and Uranus in conjunction near the meridian, in square
to Jupiter, Mars in opposition to the meridian; no
favourable indication of any kind.
“Due de Bordeaux, September 29th, 1820, 2 h 35 m
a.m. Saturn in opposition with the Sun.
“Duchess of Parma (his sister), September 21st,
1819, 6 h 35 m a.m. Mars in conjunction with the
meridian, Saturn in opposition with the Sun. •ogle
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“Duke of Angouleme, August 6th, 1775, 3 h 45 m
p.m. Mars and Saturn in conjunction with the meri¬
dian, in square with Uranus, and all three in semi-
square with the Sun.
“Duchess of Angouleme, December 19th, 1778, ll h
25 m a.m. Uranus in opposition to both the Sun and
the meridian.
“ Due de Berri (assassinated), bom January 24th,
1778, ll h 15 m a.m. The Sun in square and the Moon
in opposition with Uranus.
“Louis Philippe, October 6th, 1773, 9 h 40 m a.m.
Saturn culminating, afflicting the Moon, but some in¬
dications of good fortune.
“ Due de Nemours, October 25th, 1814, 5 h p.m.
Saturn culminating.
“ Prince de Joinville, August 14th, 1818, l h 40 m
p.m. Mars in conjunction with the meridian, Saturn
in opposition to both.
“Due d’Aumale, January 14th, 1822, 9 h p.m. The
Sun in square with Saturn, in sesquiquadrate with
Mars.
“ Duchesse d’Aumale, April 26th, 1822, 6 h 15 m p.m.
Mars culminating in sesquiquadrate with Uranus.
“ Due de Montpensier, July 31st, 1824, 5 h 40 m p.m.
Saturn culminating, but Jupiter in good aspect with the
meridian ; and the fact is that the duke, having become
a Spanish prince by marriage, has suffered compara¬
tively little by the late revolution.
“ I have not been able to procure the times of birth
of the Duke of Orleans and the Queen of the Belgians,
but the Princess Clementine of Gotha (June 3rd, 1817,
l h 40 m a.m.) has not one indication of evil in her horo¬
scope, and she has, accordingly, been entirely exempt
from the misfortunes of her family. In the nativity
of the Comte de Paris, on the other hand (August 24tb,
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1838, 2 h 45 m p.m.), the Sun is afflicted by all the
malefics at once. I have only to add that the indications
of character in these various horoscopes are, to the best
of my judgment, quite as accurate as the indications of
destiny.”
The nativities of Napoleon I. and Louis Napoleon III.
show Saturn in the meridian, and afflicting the Moon.
The former is given at page 210 of the “Text Book of
Astrology,” vol. i. Here is the horoscope of Louis
Napoleon:—
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In the horoscope of Napoleon I., Saturn was in the
midheaven and in opposition to the Moon; in that of
Napoleon III., Saturn was in the midheaven and in
square aspect with the Moon. Both Emperors fell
from power and died in exile; both at certain periods
of their lives were made prisoners.
The symbols of a fortunate and successful career are:
1. The Sun and Moon in mutual benefic aspect (the
sextile or trine), one of them being in the meridian.
2. The Sun or Moon applying to the conjunction,
textile, or trine aspect with Jupiter, one of them being
angularly posited. The square and opposition of Jupiter
with the Sun or Moon generally bring success in the
end (unless Jupiter be afflicted by the malefics), but it
is usually attended with delay, heavy expenses, and
some difficulties. 3. The Sun attended by one fortune
and the Moon by the other, one or both of the lumi¬
naries being in an angle. [This was the case at the
birth of Goethe.] 4. The Moon applying to the con¬
junction with Jupiter in the second house, and free from
affliction.
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
The signs of an unfortunate career are: 1. The Sun,
Moon, ascendant and midheaven afflicted by Saturn and
unsupported by either of the fortunes. 2. The Sun or
Moon applying to the conjunction, square, or opposi¬
tion with Saturn, and neither luminary configurated
with the fortunes.
Jupiter angular and in conjunction, sextile or trine
aspect with either the Sun or Moon, augurs success in
the Senate, at the bar, or by means of University or
Church appointments. Also in trade generally.
Venus angular and in conjunction or par. dec. with
the Sun, or in conjunction, sextile, or trine aspect with
the Moon, gives wealth through the friendship or kind
offices of ladies of position and influence, by marriage,
or by trading in articles of commerce ruled by Venus.
Mars happily configurated with the Sun or Moon
augurs success in the army, the practice of surgery,
and in any mechanical trade in which iron, sharp tools,
or fire may be used.
Saturn happily configurated with either the Sun or
Moon is favourable for the pursuit of agriculture,
building, dealing in land or houses, mines, etc.
Mercury angular and either happily configurated
with the Moon, or in conjunction or par. dec. with the
Sun, and free from affliction, augurs success in the
pursuit of science, literature, art, merchandise, or
travelling.
Persons in whose horoscopes the ascendant, mid¬
heaven, the Sun or Moon, is afflicted by Saturn should
never speculate, and should be extremely cautious in
dealing in land, houses, mines, etc. Persons in whose
horoscopes either the ascendant, midheaven, the Sun or
Moon, is afflicted by the square or opposition aspect of
Mars, should avoid danger as much as possible, and
should eschew martial pursuits and quarrels.
ON DESTINT.
103
When the fortunate planets or luminaries are in the
eastern part of the heavens at birth, the person then
born will do best in a direction east of his birthplace;
and, mutatis mutandis, the same remark applies to the
other parts of the heavens.
The signs containing the Sun, Moon, and planets
will generally indicate the parts of the world most
favourable for health and affairs. For example: A
gentleman who was born when the Moon was in the
sign Cancer and applying to the conjunction with
Jupiter (in the second house) went to a seaside place
( 25 is a sign of the “ watery ” triplicity), and made a
fortune by shipping.
For fame, take the sign containing the Sun or Moon
(whichever may be angular, unafflicted, or supported
by a benefic) as the index.
For business, science, or literature, take the sign
containing Mercury (if free from affliction); otherwise
that containing Mars. For “ luck," if every other
means fail, try the sign containing Venus or Jupiter—
whichever may be the stronger.
Avoid those places ruled by the signs containing the
planet or planets afflicting either the luminaries, the
ascendant or midheaven. A gentleman who was born
when , and Ijl were together in Aries and afflict¬
ing the Moon, went (being ignorant of Astrology) to
Birmingham (ruled by T), to seek his fortune. He lost
everything he possessed there, and contracted small-pox
(a martial disease) into the bargain.
To command success in the law, Mercury and Jupiter
must be strongly placed in the horoscope and favourably
configurated with either the Sun or Moon.
To insure success in the pursuit of the medical pro¬
fession, or in the army, Mars should be strongly posited
and happily configurated with either the Sun, Moon,
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
Mercury, or the midheaven. In like manner, judge of
probable success in other pursuits by the position and
configuration of the ruling planet.
In Urania for May, 1880, there is an interesting
paper on “ Successful Commanders,” in illustration of
the fact that at the birth of illustrious soldiers either
the Sun, Moon, or Mercury is generally found favour¬
ably configurated with Mars. The most constant con¬
figuration was the trine of the Moon with Mars; next
the sextile and opposition , and the square aspect was
seldom met with. The Duke of Wellington was born
when the Sun was in sextile with Mars, the Moon in
sextile with the Sun and in trine with Mars, while
Mercury was in the martial sign Aries. Moltke has
the Sun and Mercury in Scorpio (the most martial of
all the signs), the Moon in square and Mercury in
opposition to Mars. Lord Nelson had Mars rising in
Scorpio , and in sextile with the Moon. Sir Frederic
Roberts, the hero of Candahar, was born on the 30th of
September, 1832, in India (hour unknown); the Sun
was in trine with Mars.
The late Lord Chief Justice, Sir Alexander Cockburn,
was born on the 24th of December, 1802; the Sun (at
noon) was in Yf 2° 2' 47", the Moon in f 26° 51',
Mercury in f 23°, and Jupiter in 4° 47'. Hence the
Sun was in square aspect with Jupiter, and the Moon
was in conjunction with Mercury—symbols of industry,
talent, and success. Mark Firth, who made a large
fortune and became a public benefactor, was born on
the 25th of April, 1819, when the Moon was in con¬
junction with Mercury and in square aspect with
Jupiter. Sir Humphry Davy was born on the 17th of
December, 1778, when the Sun was in square aspect
with Jupiter.
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
The horoscope of the late Prime Minister, Earl
Beaconsfield, shows Jupiter and Venus rising, the Moon
having the square aspect with Jupiter and the trine
with the Sun; Mercury in the second house. His
indomitable energy is indicated by the proximity of
the Moon to Mars and the martial star Eegulus; his
patience, tenacity of purpose, and diplomatic skill, by
the connexion of Mercury with Saturn; his amiable
disposition and good fortune, by the ascending position
of Jupiter and Venus and their connexion with the
Moon ; his literary talent by the configurations of
Mercury with the ascending degree, the Moon, and
Mars.
With this brilliant horoscope—so pre-eminently sym¬
bolical of the genius and splendid achievements of the
late Earl, who had to contend with so many difficulties
and so much misrepresentation, and yet came off victo¬
rious—we will bring these remarks on destiny to a
close.
The importance of martial traits in the formation of
the character of heroes and heroines, in all the various
grades of life, is recognised by Dante, in his Paradiso,
Canto xvii. Writing of the heaven of the planet Mars,
he says:—
“With him shalt thou see
That mortal, who was at his birth imprest
So strongly with this star, that of his deeds
The nations shall take note.”
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CHAPTER XVII.
ON MARRIAGE.
" Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love.
There must be needs a like proportion
Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit.”
Shakespeare.
Sympathy is quite as essential as mutual love to insure
happiness in marriage. Shakespeare understood and
insisted on this. In friendship, as in love, sympathy is
chiefly produced by the harmonious configurations of the
Sun and Moon in the respective nativities. Liking and
disliking, loving and hating, are thereby explained. In
love, the concurrence of Venus and Mars is an addi¬
tional and a most powerful testimony. “ Love at first
sight” is often due to such concurrence and to the
harmonious configuration of the luminaries. The same
sign ascending at the moments of birth of two indivi¬
duals will, if they happen to meet, produce great friend¬
ship. When the ascendant of one is the midheaven of
the other, friendship results, and the one whose ascend¬
ing sign is in the midheaven of the other usually
becomes a benefactor to such person. If the benefic
planets (Jupiter and Venus) be configurated with the
luminaries in both nativities (of friends or lovers), the
friendship will prove advantageous and pleasurable to
both persons. If, on the other hand, the malefics afflict
the luminaries, the “ course of' true love ” will not “ run
smooth,” and, like Romeo and Juliet, it will be a case
of “ a pair of star-crossed lovers.”
The ancients observing this, made a serious attempt
108
SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
to prevent the manifold evils which too often result
from persons being “ unequally yoked.’’ This is mani¬
fest in the following aphorisms of Claudius Ptolemy, the
astrologer:—
“ Whenever both nativities, viz., that of the husband
and that of the wife, may exhibit the luminaries con¬
figurated together in concord, that is to say, either in
trine or in sextile to each other, the cohabitation will
most usually be lasting; especially if the said concord
exist by means of an interchange [or by “ mutual re¬
ception ”]; but its duration will be also much more
securely established provided the Moon in the husband’s
nativity should correspond or agree with the Sun in the
wife’s nativity. If, however, the relative positions of
the luminaries be in signs inconjunct, 1 or in opposition,
or in quartile, 2 the cohabitation will be speedily dis¬
solved upon slight causes, and the total separation of
the parties will ensue.
“ And should the configuration of the luminaries,
when made in concord, be aspected by the benefics, the
cohabitation will continue in respectability, comfort,
and advantage; but, on the other hand, it will abound
in strife, contention, and misfortune, if the malefics be
in aspect to the said configuration.
“ In like manner, even though the luminaries may
not be favourably configurated in concord, should the
1 Signs considered by Ptolemy to be ‘‘inconjunct” are
those separated by a space of 160°, as are r and nr, 8 and =ck,
'□ and in, 2S and f, U and vr. It is an error, for the angle
of 160° is an “ aspect.”
* The quartile is not an impediment when the luminaries
are, in both nativities, configurated with the benefics and
free from the rays of the malefics, and when the aspects of
Mercury are similar.
ON MARRIAGE.
109
benefics still offer testimony to them, the cohabitation
will then not be entirely broken off, nor totally destroyed
for life, but will be again renewed and re-established as
before. But if, on the contrary, the malefics bear
testimony to such discordant disposition of the lumi¬
naries, a dissolution of the cohabitation will take place,
accompanied by scorn and injury. Should Mercury
alone be conjoined with the malefics, it will be effected
by means of some public inculpation; and if Venus
also be found with them, it will be on the ground of
adultery,” etc.
The moral of this is that when courtship has arrived
at the “ Ask Papa ” stage, an examination and com¬
parison should be made by the parents or guardians, of
the respective nativities of the lovers, and the betrothal
should not be allowed if the horoscopes are found to be
discordant.
The study of astrology throws a flood of light on the
important question of matrimonial felicity or infelicity.
“ Incompatibility of temperament ” is often alleged to be
the cause of separation of married persons. By means
of this science such incompatibility could and should be
discovered before the knot is tied.
The late King of Denmark was very unhappy in
marriage and divorced two queens in succession, but
having become attached to a milliner he ennobled her,
espoused her morganatically, and lived very happily
with her until his death. The Sun in the one nativity
was in the place of the Moon in the other.
Goethe had the Sun in 5° 9' of tip, Frau von Stein
had Mars in 5° of Tip, whereas Christiane Vulpius had
the Moon in 4° of Tip. The former was loved and for¬
saken, the latter was loved and married by Goethe.
“ This does not look like mere coincidence,” says Mr.
Trent, in the University Magazine (March, 1880).
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SCIENCB OF THE STARS.
The same phenomena are repeated in the case of
Novalis and the girl of thirteen for whom he conceived
the intense attachment that has so puzzled his bio¬
graphers. Sophie’s Moon is in the same place as
Novalis’s Sun and Moon, and her Venus is in the place
of his Mars.
The planet to which the Moon applies at birth, either
by conjunction, sextile, or trine, generally effects mar¬
riage (by “ direction ”). The planet to which the Sun
applies, in the horoscope of one of the fair sex, describes
the nature of her husband. The planet to which the
Moon applies, in the horoscope of a man, pre-signifies
the nature of his wife. When the Sun, or Moon, is in
a bi-corporal sign ( n, K, and the first half of f ), or
configurated with several planets, more than one mar¬
riage usually takes place. When Venus is in a bi¬
corporal sign and in aspect with Mars, the person then
born has many love-engagements.
Mars configurated with the Sun or Moon, as the case
may be, pre-signifies an irascible and rather intractable
partner in marriage. Venus, so configurated, pre¬
signifies a handsome person, and one of an affectionate
disposition. Mercury, one who is provident and clever.
Jupiter, one who is benevolent, jovial, and honourable.
Saturn, one who is steady, laborious, and constant.
Uranus when in conjunction, square, or opposition
with the Sun at the birth of a woman, or with the
Moon at birth of a man, causes much unhappiness in
marriage; and when at the same time Uranus is evilly
configurated with Venus, separation usually ensues.
Saturn in square or opposition with the Sun renders
women very unfortunate in marriage. If either the
Sun or Moon be in the seventh house and applying to
conjunction or evil aspect with Saturn, the early death
of the partner in marriage is pre-signified.
ON MARRIAGE.
Ill
Women who have the Sun and Venus afflicted by
Saturn or Uranus, the Sun having no configuration
with either Mars or Jupiter, seldom marry.
Men who have the Moon and Venus so configurated,
do not usually marry.
When Venus is much afflicted, whatever may be the
configurations of the luminaries, the person then born is
unfortunate in love and matrimony.
Shakespeare’s marriage is said to have been unhappy,
the usual fate of the poet, who rarely has the good
fortune to choose as a mate one whose nativity sympa¬
thises with his own. At the marriage of Romeo and
Juliet, Shakespeare expresses the desire for the good
influences of the benefic planets, thus:—
" So smile the heavens upon this holy act.
That after hours with sorrow chide us not.”
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CHAPTER XYIII.
ON DIRECTIONS.
Pp.imart directions are arithmetical computations of the
apparent motion of any point in the heavens, or of any
heavenly body, from the situation it occupied at the
moment of birth until it meets with the conjunction,
parallel declination, or aspect of some other body or
point. The value thus obtained is termed the “ arc of
direction,” and it is converted into time by allowing
every degree of arc to represent one year of life, and
every five minutes over and above the number of
degrees to represent one month.
All directions of the midheaven are measured by an
arc of right ascension. Those of the ascendant in
mundo by the semi-arc of the body directed to it, and
in the zodiac by oblique ascension.
All directions of the Sun, Moon, and planets are
computed by means of their semi-arcs. Those direc¬
tions, which for the sake of classification are termed
zodiacal, are really mundane. Primary directions are
formed by the revolution of the earth on its axis, and
all those that require to be computed for the ordinary
term of life are formed within a few hours of the time
of birth.
The place of a heavenly body in a nativity is con¬
sidered as the body itself, as the heavenly bodies are
believed to impress their several natures on the places
held by them at the moment of birth as fully as if they
were always located therein, although they may be no
ON DIRECTIONS.
113
we direct the Sun to the conjunction with Jupiter, we
mean to the radical place of Jupiter.
Before commencing the computation of arcs of direc¬
tion it is necessary to form a “ speculum,” such as that
attached to the horoscope of Earl Beaconsfield (see page
106), containing the latitudes, declinations, right ascen¬
sions, meridian distances, and semi-arcs of the Sun,
Moon, and planets.
The rules for computing primary directions are given
in my “ Text-Book of Astrology,” vol. i. Numerous
examples are also given. The effects ascribed to the-
various directions are stated therein, hence there is no
necessity to reproduce them in these pages.
It will be well, however, to give a few additional in¬
stances of the nature of the events corresponding with
that of the group of directions coinciding in the nativi¬
ties of some eminent personages.
The horoscope of Her Majesty Queen Victoria is
given at page 70.
The following directions and remarkable events agree
with the principles of astrology. It will be observed
that no rectification is made of the time of birth given
in the official bulletin. There is no doubt that the time
was very correctly given, and those astrologers who
rectified it by bringing M.C. (j If up to the period of
the Queen's accession to the throne made a great mis¬
take.
Her Majesty acceded to the throne on the death of
her uncle, King William IV., on the 20th of June,
1637. The arc for this event is 18° 4'. The following
train of directions then operated:— 0 t
O <? et par. 1$ m., d.
. 18
0
j)144° M.C. zod., d.
. 18
4
O £ $ zod., d.
. 18
16
5 -X- ? zod., d.
. 18
17
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
On the 10th of February, 1840, the Queen was
married (arc = 20° 45'), under the following direc¬
tions :—
0(3 et par. ? m., con. 20 42
O * $ zod., d. 20 57
In May, 1850, Her Majesty was struck on the head
with a stick by Pate. The danger then incurred is
shown by the affliction of the Sun by Mars:—
O /
par. © zod., d. 31 8
O par. (J zod., con. 31 37
In Her Majesty’s 36th year war was declared by
England and France against Russia. In September,
1854, the battle of the Alma was fought, that of
Balaclava in October, and Inkermann on the 5th of
November. The fall of Sevastopol took place in
September, 1855, and peace was dictated to Russia by
the allies in the spring of 1856. These momentous
events happened under the following directions:—
O /
Asc. 3 zod., con. 35 10
M.C. par. $ zod., d. 35 17
©■X- ? zod., d. 85 29
M.C. * 5 zod., d. 35 53
M.C.C1 >2 zod., con. 36 0
© s. * D m , d. 36 4
M C. ss. □ ]) m., con. 36 10
M.C. A ? m , con. 36 29
M.C. * © m., d. 36 32
In the early summer of 1857 the Indian mutiny broke
out, and, to the astonishment of the world, the British
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115 ■
forces entirely suppressed it within eighteen months.
This great crisis took place under the operation of
O /
0 par. Tj zod., con. 37 57
M.C. par. 1$ zod., con. 37 56
OAl/m., d. 39 22
Asc. -X- cJm., d. 39 34
© j zod , con. 39 50
The last three of the foregoing directions measure
exactly to the period of the final suppression of the
mutiny and of the Indian Empire being annexed to the
Crown.
The Duchess of Kent died on the 16th of March,
1861. The arc for this event is 41° 9', which is very
nearly the same as the meridian distance of Uranus:—
M.C. (j zod., con. 41 56
M.C. (j $ m., con. 41 57
On the 14th of December, 1861, Her Majesty and
the entire nation were plunged into the deepest grief by
the death of the Prince Consort. This sad event took
place under the operation of the following train of evil
directions:—
Asc. 45° $ zod., con. 42 27
1? (5 O zod., d. 42 43
Asc. 45° 0 zod., d. 42 44
5 45°© zod., d. 42 51
The war in Afghanistan, and the brilliant victories of
General Sir Frederic Roberts on the heights before
Cabul, occurred under the following directional in¬
fluences:— , ,
O par. © zod., d. 59 57
M.C. (j Antares, m., con. 60 5
M.C.*7/m.,d. 60 29
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
The Zulu war, the disaster of Isandhlwana, and the
victory of Ulundi, in 1879, took place under the above
directions.
In the early part of 1880 the first symptoms were
manifested of the disturbance in Ireland, which culmi¬
nated in the reign of terror in that unhappy country.
In April, 1880, Lord Beaconsfield’s Government were
defeated at the poll. These events happened under the
following directions:—
O /
M.C. par. Jj zod., d. 60 55
Asc. Ip m., c. 60 56
]) □ lj m., d. 61 0
In August, 1880, the disaster to General Burrows’
division took place in Afghanistan; and in the following
month Sir Frederic Roberts marched to the relief of
Candahar and defeated Ayoub Khan. On the 16th of
December, 1880, the Boers raised the standard of revolt,
and in a few weeks thrice defeated the British troops
sent against them. These events coincided with the
operation of the following directions:—
O >
© A I? zod.,d. 61 11
par. 0 zod., con. 61 36
The student will find that the nature of the directions
enumerated corresponds exactly to the nature of the
events happening during the period of their operation.
Similar correspondence could be shown in the nativities
of Napoleon I., Napoleon III., the Emperor of Germany,
the late Czar of Russia, and in all the nativities of
eminent personages whose times of birth have been
accurately noted and recorded in the press, did space
permit. It is open to the student to investigate this
matter, and to determine for himself whether there is
fair ground for the belief in directional influence.
118
SCIENCE OF THE STAES.
The horoscope of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales will
prove an interesting one for such research. The official
bulletin announcing his birth stated that it took place at
10 h 48 m a.m. of the 9th November, 1841, at Bucking¬
ham Palace. The right-ascension of the meridian was
then 14 h l m 44 s .86 or 210° 26' 13". The latitude of
the birthplace is 51° 30' 3" N., and the long. 0 m 39 s W.
of Greenwich. Scorpio 2° 38' 25" culminated, and
Sagittarius 27° 37' 15" ascended, as will be seen in the
preceding diagram.
Taking the time of birth given as correct, and it was
evidently very carefully noted, the following directions
correspond to the period of the Prince Consort’s death;
the arc for this early bereavement being 20° 6':—
o /
M.C. par. ]$[ zod., con. 20 7
]) 150° $ zod., con. . 20 10
Asc. <5 3 m., d. 20 37
The marriage of the Prince of Wales took place on
the 10th of March, 1863, and was celebrated with great
pomp and national rejoicings, the public reception of
his charming bride being a magnificent one. The arc
for the marriage is 21° 20', and the following directions
measure very nearly the same:—
$ par. D zod., con. (first contact)... 21 22
? par. ]) zod., con. (central). 21 47
In the month of November, 1871, H.R.H. became ill
with typhoid fever, and in December his life was well-
nigh despaired of. The arc for this severe illness is
80° 1'. The direction of the Sun to the parallel decli¬
nation with Saturn was then operating; the Sun being
“ hyleg ” and Saturn being in the ascendant of the
nativity, this direction was a most dangerous one.
ON DIRECTIONS.
119
Other trying directions nearly coincided. Happily, the
Sun was near enough to the par. dec. with Jupiter to
save life (astrologically speaking):—
O /
O par. zod., d. (first contact) ... 29 43
$ d Ascendt. zod., d. 29 49
O par. Ij[ zod., con. 30 6
Asc. d ? m., con . 30 15
In October, 1876, the Prince went to India. The
following directions were then operating:—
O /
© par. 1/ zod., d. 35 7
© A *2 m., con. 35 40
The ascending position of Jupiter at the moment of
birth of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, the sextile aspect
between Jupiter and Venus, the square of the Moon
with Jupiter, and the parallel declination of Mercury
with Jupiter; the angular positions of the Sun (in the
meridian) and Mars (in the ascendant) in mutual sextile;
these striking and fortunate positions and configurations
pre-signified the bonhomie, the good nature, and the
great popularity of the heir to the British crown. The
Prince is eminently fitted by nature for his high position
and for that still higher state to which he will one day
accede. Indeed, this horoscope tells strongly in favour
of genethliacal astrology. The drawbacks are the
angular position of Saturn (in the ascendant) and his
square aspect with the Moon, which have already had
effect in the dangerous illness suffered by the Prince in
1871, and in the widowhood of Her Majesty. The
positions of the Sun and Mars are highly favourable for
the victorious career of the army and navy of Great
Britain, should war, under the Prince’s sway, be, un¬
happily, unavoidable. In fine, the nation may antici¬
pate for H.B.H. a most glorious and fortunate reign.
CHAPTER XIX
ON SOLAR REVOLUTIONS.
" Vitam regit fortnna, non sapientia.”— Cicero.
A Solar Revolution is the return of the Sun to the
degree, minute, and second of longitude held by him at
birth. A map of the heavens is drawn for the exact
moment of the Sun’s return. The Solar revolution is,
of course, purely symbolical, and is of slight importance
unless the same sign ascend as at birth, or unless a
planet be exactly (or within 5°) rising, southing, setting,
or in the lower meridian. When neither of these
happens, it is advisable to reject the figure, and mark
in pencil in the horoscope the transits at the revolution.
Solar Revolutions derive most of their force from the
transits, and these are then most potent because they
happen at or near the period when the earth is in the
same part of her orbit as at birth.
The moment of the Sun’s return may readily be
computed from either the Nautical Almanac or ZadkieTs
Ephemeris. Ephemerides that do not give the Sun’s
longitude to seconds are useless for this purpose. The
Sun’s place at birth must be computed to seconds, or
the moment of the Solar return cannot be exactly
determined; in the case of a sign of short ascension
being in the ascendant the revolution would be com¬
pletely altered if there were an error of one minute in
the Sun’s longitude.
In the year 1870, the rulers of France and Prussia
ON SOLAR REVOLUTIONS.
121
had the Sun in conjunction with Mars at their Solar
revolutions. In July of that year the Emperor of the
French declared war against the King of Prussia. As
the former suffered most by the result of that san¬
guinary war, so disastrous for France, it will be both
interesting and instructive to examine his Solar Revolu¬
tion for 1870, and to compare it with his horoscope
(see page 100). By so doing we shall find a very
singular and striking corroboration of the theory that
the planets are “for signs of future events.”
Here follows the calculation of the Sun’s return:—
ot n
Sun’s long, at birth . 29 44 55'0
Sun’s long. April 19, 1870. 29 12 207
0 32 34-3
o / n
Sun’s long. April 20, 1870 . 30 10 51-2
Sun’s long. April 19, 1870 . 29 12 20 7
Sun’s motion in 24 h . 0 58 30-5
Then, by proportional logarithms, say
As 58' 30-5" . (a.c.) 9 51194
To 32' 34-3 . 74243
So 24 h 0 . -87506
To 13 h 21 m 40* .= 1-12943
The Solar Revolution takes place, then, at l h 21 m 40*
a.m. (G.M.T.) of April 20th, 1870. This must be cor¬
rected for Paris mean time by adding 9 m 21*. Thus
we find that the map of the heavens has to be drawn
for l h 31 m 1* a.m., and for the latitude of Paris
(48° 50' N.).
The sidereal time at Greenwich mean noon of April
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19th, 1870, is l h 49 m 32-28’. From this must be
subtracted l*54 s , and we have
Sidereal Time at Paris . 1 49 30‘74
Add time elapsed . 13 31 1
Add diff. mean and sidereal time 0 2 13 22
E.A. of M.C., 230° 41' 15" or 15 22 44-96
To find the ascending degree, we add 90° to the E.A.
of the meridian, and thus obtain the oblique-ascension of
the ascendant, viz. 320° 41' 15". Then, by Formula 1
(oblique-ascension given to find ecliptic longitude),
p. 241 of vol. i. of the “ Text-Book of Astrology,” we
determine the ascending degree to be Yf 21° 53' 11".
The same sign ascends as at birth.
The degree culminating is Til 23° 5' 11", which is
almost the exact place of Saturn at birth, viz. TT\ 20°
24' p,. The evil Uranus is just setting—being on the
cusp of the house of war—in square aspect with Mars
and in opposition to the ascendant. Mars is in exact
square aspect with the ascendant I The Moon is in
conjunction and the Sun in square with Saturn 1
On the 8th of July, 1870, Uranus arrived at the
exact opposition (ffi 21° 53') of the revolutional ascend¬
ant, and the dispute was then at its height between
France and Prussia as to the Spanish succession. On
the 14th of July, the Sun arrived at the same place ( $
21° 53'), and the square of the place of Mars at the
revolution; on the 12th, the Moon was totally eclipsed
in the 21° of Yf, i-e. in the ascendant of the revolution,
and this eclipse was visible in Europe; on the 15th, the
Emperor of the French declared war against the King
of Prussia. The decisive battle of Sedan began about
6 h a.m. of the 1st of September, 1870, when the Moon
was in the place of Saturn at birth, and Mars was in
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conjunction with Uranus in the seventh house (that of
war) of Louis Napoleon’s horoscope and revolution.
On the following day the Emperor surrendered to the
King of Prussia, and became a prisoner of war. On
the 4th of September the de'che'ance of the Empire was
declared and the French .Republic was proclaimed.
Fig. 8.
s
At birth the Sun was in conjunction with Mars; at
the Solar Revolution, 1870, the Sun was again in con¬
junction with Mars, and the Emperor goes to war,
meets with defeat, and loses his throne I
The King of Prussia had the Sun in conjunction with
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SCIENCE or THE STARS.
Mars at his Solar revolution for 1870, but having a
more fortunate horoscope (see Urania for April, 1880,
p. 109), gains the victory over the unlucky Emperor of
the French. These cannot be mere coincidences.
At H.M. Queen Victoria’s Solar Revolution for 1854
(May 23rd, 3 h 28 m 23 s p.m. G.M.T.), we find b in
4° 48' of Gemini, close to the places of the Sun and
Moon and the ascendant at birth, and £ in Tip 7° 43',
in square aspect to those places and b ; the Moon in
T 25° 34', close to the place of g at birth. The
Crimean War was begun that year.
At the late Czar’s Solar Revolution for 1877 (April
28th, 4 h 21 m p.m., Moscow), we find the Sun in square
aspect with Mars. On the 24th of April, the Czar
declared war against the Sultan of Turkey, on the very
day that Mars passed through the degree of longitude
(ss 4° 42') on the cusp of the house of war of his horos¬
cope. (See Urania for February, 1880, p. 41.)
At the Solar Revolution of November 28th, 18S2,
Hh 49 m 42 > p. m-i Madrid mean time, the King of
Spain will have the Sun in conjunction with Mars, and
the Moon in the place of Saturn at his birth (10 h 15 m
p.m., November 28th, 1857, Madrid). The Sun will be
in f 6 ° 42' 33", in f 10° 5', J in s 25° 49'. If
he escape war in 1882-3, this young monarch will be in
danger of a violent death. In September, 1882, he will
have J) <f zod., con. 24° 52', in operation; he will
then be in danger in travelling.
As I am frequently asked for a copy of my horoscope,
I will here state the time of my birth and give the
planets’ places thereat. My father (a legally qualified
surgeon), registered my birth as occurring at 9 h 20 m
a m. of November 10th, 1840 (in lat. 51° 30' 35" N.,
and long. 0 m 31 s W.) This I have rectified to 9 h 18 m 9“
a.m, which gives the R.A. of the M.C. 189° 8 ' 10";
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9° 56' 37" being ia the meridian, and f 10° 13' 14"
in the ascendant. Q in HI 18° 5' 31", ]) 0 27° 6',
5 t 10° 29' 46", ? f 16° 7' 38", irp 18° 4' 10",
2/ T>l 26° 58' 46", f 20° 5' 38", and 1$ X 16° 34' 26" R.
At my Solar Revolution for 1848, the Sun was in con¬
junction with Mars and Mercury, the Moon was in
opposition to Mars, and Saturn was exaotly in the lower
meridian. My ninth year was, accordingly, a most
critical one, my life was in the greatest danger, and my
father suffered also.
Generally speaking, when the fortunes are found con¬
joined or favourably configurated with the Sun or Moon,
and when Venus or Jupiter is in the ascendant or mid¬
heaven at a solar revolution, the succeeding year of life
proves fortunate and healthy.
When Mars, Saturn, or Uranus is found in conjunc¬
tion or evilly configurated with the Sun or Moon, and
in one of the angles, the ensuing year of life proves
either unfortunate or unhealthy, sometimes both.
Solar revolutions are not so potent when their features
do not correspond with the nature of the primary direc¬
tions operating at the period of their occurrence.
The Moon at a Solar Revolution in the place of
Mercury at birth, and unafflicted, pre-signifies active
and profitable employment, travelling, literary fame,
etc., according to the strength of 5 in the nativity. The
Moon in the place of Venus, a pleasurable year. In the
place of Mars, trouble and suffering, danger by fire,
quarrels, etc., according to the nativity. In the place
of Jupiter, gain, pleasure-seeking, and good health. In
the place of Saturn, sickness, danger of accidents,
pecuniary loss, etc. In the place of Uranus, a family
loss, danger to wife, mother, or sister.
The effects of the transits of the planets are described
in the “ Text Book of Astrology,” vol. i.
CHAPTER XX.
HORARY ASTROLOGY.
“ They marked the influence, and observed the power
Of every sign, and every fatal hour." —Manilicb.
Horary Astrology consists of divination by means of
the planets. The planets are used as symbols, the
principle involved being that the human mind is con¬
stituted in deep sympathy with the movements and
configurations of the heavenly bodies. Believers in
horary astrology hold that the heavenly bodies, will, at
any time of really anxious inquiry, pre-signify the con¬
nection and result of the circumstances affecting and
surrounding the “ querent thus forming a kind of
oracle, and being, most probably the mode of divination
employed by the ancients.
Niebuhr, in reference to the derivation of the Roman
from the Etruscan religion, says: “ Every department
of divination was taught in the schools ot the priests.”
Upon which Walter remarks: “ This was, perhaps, not
unconnected with astrology.”
The teraphim mentioned in the Old Testament were
images formed for the purposes of worship and for divin¬
ing future events. They were made by astrologers
under certain constellations. Among other reasons why
Rachel stole her father’s images, this is thought to be
one, viz., that Laban should not, by consulting with
them, discover which way Jacob took in his flight.
1 See " Ecclesiastical Rites used by the Ancient Hebrews,”
by Thomas Goodwyn. 1628.
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Joseph was acquainted with divination by horary
astrology. His divining cup had engraved on its outer
side the symbols of the signs of the zodiac, and the
horoscope ready for the marking in of the positions of
the planets at the moment of consultation.
This was the cup which was found in Benjamin’s
sack. Joseph sent his steward after his brethren with
instructions to say to them: “ Wherefore have ye re¬
warded evil for good ? Is not this [cup] it in which
my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth ? ”
And when his brethren were brought back to him,
Joseph said: “ What is this that ye have done ? Wot
ye not that a man such as I can certainly divine ? ”
Allusions are frequently met with in the writings of
modern Persian poets to the divining cups used by
Persian monarchs; in fact, much of the wonderful pro¬
sperity of the ancient monarchs of Persia is attributed
by the poets to “ the cup showing the universe.”
Diodorus avers that Joseph was the author of a great
work on astrology: “ The Aphorisms of Hermes the
Egyptian.”
The term “ horary ” is derived from the Latin word
hora, an hour. The hour at which the querent con¬
sulted the astrologer was noted and a map of the
heavens drawn.
Among the Singhalese, as among the early Arabian
and European astrologers, Hora is a planetary hour.
The twenty-four hours of the day were each in turn
dedicated to the seven planets, in the following order,
beginning with the first hour after sunrise on Sraday:—
the Sun, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter,
Mars. Thus the theory of the planetary hours gave
origin to the nomenclature of the several days of the
week, and to the division of the week into seven days—
the number of the planets (the Sun and Moon being in-
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eluded under the head of planets). The seventh day
was Saturn’s day (Saturday), and this was dies infaustus,
and accordingly all work was suspended on the seventh
day of the week.
The order of the planetary hours was derived from
the order of application. The Moon applies to Mercury
(the Moon being swifter in motion than Mercury),
Mercury to Venus, Venus to the Sun, the Sun to Mars,
Mars to Jupiter, and Jupiter to Saturn. Hence, Saturn
being the “ highest ” and slowest in movement of the
planets known to the ancients, the order became: Saturn,
Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, the Moon.
Homs, or Orus, was, according to Herodotus, the
Egyptian name for the Sun. The Sun, as already
stated, ruled the first day and the first hour of that day
of the week; hence the 25th hour, or the first of the next
day, was the planetary hour of the Moon. The follow¬
ing table will explain this very simple arrangement,
which Whewell, being unacquainted with astrology,
mistook for “certain arbitrary arithmetical processes
connected in some way with astrological views.”
Whewell says: “The usage is found all over the East;
it existed among the Arabians, Assyrians, and Egyptians.
The same week is found in India, among the Brahmins;
it has there also its days marked by the names of the
heavenly bodies. The period has gone on without inter¬
ruption or irregularity from the earliest recorded times
to our own days, traversing the extent of ages and the
revolutions of empires.”
Eusebius gives an ancient oracle, which he had copied
from Porphyry, in which we are clearly informed
that the Magi named the days of the week from the
planets.
•sanoH xavxaNvaa 3HX ao aiavx
651
•JLOO'IOHXSV iHVHOH
Hours.
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SCIENCE OP THE STABS.
The early Christians changed the day of rest from
the seventh (Saturn’s day), as instituted by Moses, to
the first day (Sun-day) of the week. This was the
Druidical Sab-aith day. Many ages before Christianity
—in the remotest times of Britain and Gaul—the first
day of the week was set apart, more particularly, for
the instruction of the laity, and distinguished by the
name of “ the day of the Sun.” A Saronide, or preacher,
delivered his sermon from a jube, or pulpit. The dis¬
course was termed Sab-aith, or “ the word of the teacher
or wise man.”
The Jewish sacrificial system as described in Numbers
xxvii., and elsewhere, had reference to the motions and
influences of the heavenly bodies. The morning and
the evening sacrifice were obviously connected with the
Sun; the Sabbath offering, with the planet Saturn; the
offering of the new moon, with the pre-signification of
future events attached to the new moon (or rather
the planetary positions thereat); and the paschal sacri¬
fice, with the vernal equinox and the lunation nearest to
the Sun’s passage of the equator at the rising sign of Aries.
The horary astrologer before giving judgment on the
subject of inquiry examined the figure of the heavens,
drawn for the moment of consultation, to determine
whether it was “ radical ” (i.e. like the radix, or nativity
of the querent); and if he found that the planet ruling
the ascending sign was of the same triplicity as the
“ lord of the hour ” of consultation, he deemed to be
radical, or fit to be judged, whether or no the nativity
was procurable. Thus, if a fiery sign (T, $, or f)
ascended, and the Sun or Mars, in the daytime, was
lord of the hour, the figure was deemed radical. To
determine the planetary hour, during the day, the
horary astrologer divided the time of sunset by 6, and
by this means obtained the length of the planetary hour;
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then from the hour of consultation he subtracted the
time of sunrise, and thus readily ascertained (with the
aid of the foregoing table) the planetary hour.
The planets Uranus and Neptune, not being known
to the ancients, were not included in the table of
planetary hours. The value of it, at the present day,
is nil. The only guarantee that the horary figure is fit
to be judged, is the deep anxiety of the querent and the
resemblance of the figure to his nativity. It is only at
moments of the profoundest anxiety—when life or
fortune may be trembling in the balance—that horary
figures are worth consideration. In most cases, the
nativity, if procurable, would solve the questions with
greater certainty.
The confident statements of Lilly and his confreres as
to the reliability of horary astrology are really wonderful.
They applied it alike to the most momentous and the
most trivial affairs. The horary astrologer, without
the slightest acquaintance with anatomy, physiology,
and pathology, took upon himself to decide where
doctors disagreed, and to diagnose the nature of an
obscure disease which had baffled the wisest physicians.
In a work on horary astrology, published in 1861, an
example was given of a figure taken for the moment of
reading a newspaper report of the arrest of a young lady
on the charge of murdering her little half-brother. The
horary astrologer did not stop to reflect that a hundred
astrologers residing in different parts of the United
Kingdom would read the report at widely different
times, and would, if their curiosity were excited, take
horary figures at different hours, in not two of which
figures might there be any real resemblance. The young
lady was released, as he declared she would be; but her
guilt was, many years afterwards, confessed by herself.
In the preface to Lilly’s “ Introduction to Astrology,”
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■we are told that horary astrology may be quickly learned
by any person of even moderate abilities, and may be
well understood and reduced to constant practice in
three months. Also, that after many years’ experience
the author had found the laws of horary astrology un¬
failing. The great majority of his clients consulted
him by letter, hence it was simply impossible for him
to verify the correctness of his judgment in every
instanoe. The same writer stated that if in a figure
taken for the beginning of a serious illness the testi¬
monies agree, “ your judgment,” as to the nature of the
disease, “ will be infallible." As the writer was not a
medical man, and was never engaged in medical practice,
he had not sufficient opportunities for testing the truth
of horary astrology in cases of sickness. Certainly, to
the eye of the trained physician the aphorisms of Lilly,
in regard to illness, appear a hopeless jumble. The
nativity of the patient would in most cases afford a good
prognosis, but neither it nor the figure for the decumbi-
ture could be of much use in diagnosis.
The rules of horary astrology which we are about
to present to our readers, in a condensed form, are
applicable only with safety to figures concerning events
of the greatest importance.
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The Twelve Houses of the Heavens have the follow¬
ing signification in Horary Astrology.
The Ascendant, or First House.—This represents the
person asking the question, the one who makes an offer
to another person, the plaintiff in an action at law, etc.
Should an evil planet be within 5° of the eastern horizon,
the person will have a mark, blemish, or scar, either on
the face or on that part of the body ruled by the sign
occupied by the planet. For example, if (J be rising in
T the person would have a mark or scar on the face,
near the eyes; in 0, on the neck.
The Second House has relation to property in goods,
money, and chattels ; in law-suits it denotes the plain¬
tiffs friends or assistants, witnesses, etc.; in battles, the
support or aid a general may expect.
The Third House governs brethren, sisters, near
kindred; short journies, and removals; letters, rumours,
messages, newspapers; and railways.
The Fourth House has relation to the father of the
querent; to houses, lands, mines, inheritance, and
hidden treasures.
The Fifth House bears relation to children, schools,
theatres, and places of amusement.
The Sixth House concerns servants, small cattle, and
sickness.
The Seventh House relates to marriage, love engage¬
ments, the wife or husband; and (in cases of crime)
criminals. ' kiOOj^K
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SCIENCE or THE STARS.
The Eighth House has relation to deaths, legacies,
wills; to the wife’s dowry, or the husband’s estate.
The Ninth House relates to voyages, long joumies,
religion, science, art, literature, books, beneficed clergy,
etc.
The Tenth House rules the monarch, president of a
republic, or prime minister; business and commerce
generally, and professions.
The Eleventh House represents the querent’s friends,
his hopes and desires. To kings and governments it
concerns their friends, allies, &c.
The Twelfth House relates to the querent’s secret
enemies; to great cattle; to prisons and prisoners.
Bearing in mind these dist : nctions, it is easy to
determine to which house belongs the affair, the issue
of which it is desired to ascertain.
But there is another thing to consider before pro¬
ceeding to judgment, viz., to which planet the affair
inquired about relates. The following statement of the
persons, professions, commodities, etc., ruled by the
several planets, will serve to this end :—
The Sun. — Professions, etc.; Monarchs, princes,
prime ministers, dukes, and high dignitaries generally,
whether in nations, cities, towns, or armies; also gold¬
smiths, braziers, coppersmiths, minters of money and
pewterers. Mineral: Gold. Stones : Ruby, carbuncle,
hyacinth, and chrysolite.
The Moon. — Professions, etc.: Ladies of title and
quality, whether queens, princesses, or countesses; women
generally. Also watermen, travellers, pilgrims, fisher¬
men, fishmongers, vintners, brewers, sailors, and hawkers.
Mineral: Silver. Stones : The crystal, the selenite, and
all soft white stones.
Merccbt. — Professions, etc.: Astronomers, astrolo¬
gers, philosophers, poets, editors, journalists, accountants,
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attorneys, clerks, schoolmasters, tailors, most mechanics,
and money-lenders. Mineral: Quicksilver (named
mercury). Stones: Topaz, and all stones of various
colours.
Venus. — Professions, etc.: Musicians, actors and
actresses, artists, engravers, painters, gamesters, linen-
drapers, perfumers, and all who deal in ornaments,
women’s apparel, and toys. Minerals: Copper and
white metals, sometimes silver. Stones: White coral,
chrysolite, light sky-coloured sapphire.
Mars. — Professions, etc.: Surgeons, apothecaries,
chemists, soldiers, gunners, barbers, cutlers, cooks,
smiths, ironmongers, and all who work with sharp tools.
Minerals: Iron, antimony, arsenic, brimstone, and ochre.
Stones: Bloodstone, loadstone, jasper, firestone, and all
common red stones.
Jdpiter. — Professions, etc.: Bishops, the clergy,
judges, barristers, students at universities or colleges,
scholars, clothiers, woollen drapers, grocers and their
assistants. Mineral: Tin. Stones: Amethysts, crystals,
emeralds, hyacinths, marble, sapphire, topaz and tur¬
quoise; also all stones of blue colour or red mixed with
green.
Saturn. — Professions, etc.: Popes, monks, friars,
hermits, ascetics ; agriculturists, brickmakers, chandlers,
dyers, miners, sextons, gravediggers, and shepherds.
Minerals: Lead, coal, and all dross or earth. Stones:
All black or ash-coloured stones.
Uranus. — Professions, etc.: Astronomers, astrologers,
philosophers; and all who experiment in chemistry,
electricity, &c.
Having assigned the affair inquired about to its
proper planet and house, it next becomes necessary to
determine the planet ruling the inquirer (his “ signifi-
cator ”). The planet whose sign is in the ascendant is
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usually considered the querent’s significator, and the
Moon as his or her co-significator (except in a love
affair, when the Moon is always taken as the co-signift-
cator of the man, and the Sun as the co-significator of
the woman).
The following table of the “houses” or chief dignities
of the planets is exactly identical with that found in
the mummy case of the Archon of Thebes, in ancient
Egypt.
ft 0 i 25
n* ? n
? »
n 3 r
t V- x
w h »
The Sun has but one “ house,” viz. T.eo. The Moon
has only one, Cancer. The planets Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have two each. The signs
opposite to their chief dignities are those in which the
planets suffer “ detriment,” as, for instance, the Sun in
Aquarius, the Moon in Capricornus, Mercury in f and
X. In certain signs the heavenly bodies are said to be
exalted. The Sun’s exaltation is in' T, the Moon’s in 0,
Mercury’s in rip, Venus’s in X> Mars’s in VJ\ Jupiter’s
in $, and Saturn’s in 2!.
Uranus and Neptune not being known to the ancients
were left out in the cold. As they are more remote
from the Sun than is Saturn, they should have the same
houses and exaltation as .
The industrious character of most people bora with
rip rising, the fiery nature of most persons bora under
T and tq, and the joviality of f and X persons, would
appear to justify the above arrangement of chief digni¬
ties.
Should Pisces ascend at the moment of consultation.
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Jupiter would be taken as “lord of the ascendant,” or
ruling planet. At one time this rule was applied to
nativities, but it is now very properly discarded by ex¬
perienced students, and confined to horary and mundane
astrology.
Let us now pass on to the consideration of affairs
ruled by the first house of the Heavens.
1. Whether an event suddenly occurring will prove
fortunate or unfortunate ?
Note the moment of occurrence of an important
event which excites anxiety or fear, and draw a map of
the Heavens for such moment. If the ascendant have
1 / or 5 located therein, unafflicted, if ]) be well aspected
and not afflicted, and no evil planet be in the mid¬
heaven or evilly configurated with degree ascending,
then no trouble will accrue from the event. On the
other hand, if an evil planet be in the ascendant, or
midheaven, the 5 afflicted, and the planet correspond¬
ing to the nature of the event, also afflicted, then no
good will come of the affair, and it had better be
abandoned or let alone if possible. An evil planet in
the second house afflicting the D or planet in the
ascendant, pre-signifies pecuniary loss; in the third,
trouble through a relative or neighbour, or short
journey; in the fourth, trouble through the father, or
concerning land, or houses, or mines ; and, in like
manner, judge respecting the other houses. A benefic
so situated and in good aspect with the ]) would show
gain.
2. Of the Fate of a Ship.
The figure of the Heavens must be drawn for the
moment of the launch of the vessel, if it can be pro¬
cured. Figures drawn for the commencement of a
voyage are unreliable; for many vessels set sail at or
very near the same moment, yet some arrive safely at
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their destination and make remunerative voyages, while
others meet with misfortunes and losses.
The ascendant and the ]) are taken to signify the ship.
An evil planet in the ascendant, or afflicting the ]) or
the ascendant, the ship will be unfortunate. If the
afflicting planet be ^ , the vessel will run aground. If
very great danger or damage (by fire, probably,
especially in a fiery sign). If the signs containing the
afflicting planets be such as rule the parts of the ship
below water, a leak will be sprung. If $ and I£[ be
conjoined in the fourth house, explosion is to be feared.
If 11 or ? be in the ascendant, the second house, or
the meridian, the ship will prove a profitable invest¬
ment. An evil planet in the second house, there is
every probability that she will prove a losing venture.
The parts of the ship ruled by the various signs are:
T, the breast or bows ; 0, the cutwater and parts
beneath; n, the rudder and stern; $, the bottom; SI,
the upper works; Tip, the hold; the parts about the
water’s edge; TT\, the seamen’s berths, and cabin; },
the crew; Vf, the ends of the vessel; sr, the master or
captain; X, the wheels or screw in steam-vessels, and
the sails in sailing ships.
While on this subject it maybe interesting to recount
the following incident. On the 6th of November, 1877,
the author was in company with a gentleman who was
part owner of a steamship which was launched that day
at 45 minutes past noon at Port Glasgow. I drew a
map of the Heavens for the moment of launching. The
E.A. of the meridian was 15 h 48“ 20*; the 29th deg.
of Tq was in the midheaven, the Moon being in 71^ 29°
20' and in square aspect with Uranus in SI 29° 7', in
the seventh house. The 19th deg. of Vf was in the
ascendant and the infortunes Mars and Saturn, nearly
conjoined, were in the first house (in X)- I told Mr.
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C. (the part owner) that the vessel—the Kerangie—
would soon meet with a disaster, and that she would
prove anything but a profitable investment. On her
trial trip she met with an accident; and not many
months afterwards she struck on a rock while on a
voyage in the southern ocean. She proved a most un¬
profitable investment.
It would be well for owners if they would select a
fortunate moment for the launching of their ships.
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HORARY ASTROLOGY— Continued.
Next in order come the questions pertaining to the
second house or division of the Heavens.
1. Whether the querent shall have money lent re¬
turned to him ?
The lord of the ascendant and the 5 are for the
querent, the lord of the second (or planet in the second)
denotes his substance. The lord of the seventh is the
significator of the quesited, and the lord of the eighth
(or planet in the eighth) of his substance. But, if the
quesited be a relation, then the house ruling such rela¬
tionship must be taken for him—as, for example, the
third for a brother or sister, the fourth for the father.
Testimonies of the return of the money: Lord of
ascendant or )) in conjunction or good aspect with the
lord of the eighth or planet in the eighth. The lord of
the eighth house in the second, with reception. Lord
of ascendant or ]) joined to a fortune having dignities in
the ascending sign; or in the tenth house.
Testimonies of the loss of the whole or part of the
money: If the planet in the eighth house be an infor¬
tune, and have no reception with either of the querent’s
significators, the money will only be recovered in part.
Lord of the seventh or eighth in the first or second
house, without reception with either of the significators
of the querent or his substance, the money will never
be recovered.
Note. —If the time of recovery be part of the question,
'tint the number of degrees between the platic and
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perfect aspect between the significators, and say that
every degree in moveable signs and angles answers to a
day; in common signs and angles, a week; in fixed
signs and angles, a month. Succedent houses give
weeks, months, and years, according to the sign; cadent
houses show months and years.
2. Whether the querent shall obtain preferment or
employment from the Government, or person of high
rank, or an employer 1
This must be judged in a similar way to the last
question, except that the tenth house must be taken for
the quesited. In all cases, see that the fourth house
and its lord be not greatly afflicted, as the affair would
then end badly.
Questions relating to the third house.
1. Of news, rumours, etc., whether importing good or
evil to the querent ?
Only when the report concerns the querent, his family,
or his substance, should these rules be applied:—
Good news is true if ]) be in the ascendant, third,
tenth, or eleventh house, separating by good aspect from
any planet, and applying by good aspect to the lord of
the ascendant at the time of receiving the news.
The news is false if ]) be void of course (i.e., passing
out of a sign without forming an aspect with any planet),
or if ]) be in evil aspect with , and neither in good
aspect to the lord of die ascendant.
2. Whether it will be to take a certain journey ?
Only journeys that can be accomplished within 24
hours are ruled by the third house.
If the lord of the ascendant be strong and in the
third house, or in reception with the lord of the third,
or well aspected by it, or if the ]) be so placed, the
journey may be safely undertaken. A square aspect
(in signs of short ascension), with reception, is not
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against the journey. If, on the other hand, there be
no connection between the lord of the ascendant, or the
]), with the lord of the third, and the lord of the
ascendant, or j) be afflicted by an evil planet in the
third, then it will not be well to take the journey.
Questions concerning the fourth house.
1. Of buying or selling houses, land, farms, etc.
The ascendant and its lord are for the purchaser, the
seventh and its lord for the seller. The fourth house
and its lord are for the house or land, etc. The tenth
house and planet or planets therein are for the price of
the house or land, and show whether the price is cheap
or dear.
The lord of the ascendant and seventh in good aspect,
the lord of the seventh applying to the lord of the
ascendant, a bargain may be readily concluded. If the
significators be in opposition without reception, there
will be no bargain.
The quality of the house, or land, etc., may be
known by the planet in the fourth, the sign therein
and its lord. If two infortunes be therein, and the
lord thereof be retrograde or afflicted, the property
will not continue long in the purchaser’s family.
But if either ? or 1/ be in the fourth, it will be a
profitable investment and will remain in possession of
the family.
If there be an infortune in the ascendant, the occu¬
piers are deceitful, and will not do justice to the house,
or farm. If the infortune be direct in motion, they will
purloin the timber or wear out the land, injure the
buildings, etc. If it be retrograde, the occupiers will
run away, or throw up their lease.
If a fortune be in the ascendant, the tenants will act
honestly and give every satisfaction.
If the lord of the tenth house be strong and angularly
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posited, the price is high; if it be weak and afflicted,
the price is not too high.
2. If it be well to take a certain farm, house, or land,
etc. ?
The ascendant and its lord are for the person who
would hire; the seventh and its lord for the owner;
the tenth is for the profit by the transaction; and the
fourth house is for the end of the affair.
If the lord of the ascendant be in the first house, or if
a fortune be therein, the farmer desires greatly to take
the farm, and will find it a good bargain ; but if an
infortune be in the ascendant, he will go back from his
bargain.
If the lord of the seventh be therein, or a fortune be
therein, the man who has to sell, or let, will keep his
word and abide by the bargain; but he will profit most
by it.
A fortune in the fourth house, and well aspected, the
affair will end well and satisfy all parties concerned.
If an infortune be therein, the end of the transaction
will not please either party.
3. If it be well to remove from one house or place to
another ?
The ascendant and fourth house are for the place or
house occupied by the querent; the seventh the place
or house to which he would remove.
The ascendant or second house afflicted show that the
querent is unfortunate or poor in his present abode;
and, if the affliction be great and from fixed signs ( 0,
SI, Iff, and $s), he will never do any good there. If
the fourth house be afflicted by evil planets, the house
he occupies is unlucky or unhealthy, and he had better
leave it.
The seventh and eighth houses show the result of his
removal. If they be stronger or better aspected than
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the first, second, and fourth, he will do better in the
place or house to which he thinks of removing. If they
be weaker and more afflicted than the first, second, and
fourth houses, then the querent would not gain by
removing to such place or house.
Questions pertaining to the sixth house.
Whether a sickness will be long or short ?
The time of the first attack of the illness should be
obtained, if possible; as this will show the probable
issue, and the critical periods.
Generally speaking, if a common sign (n, 15 ?, or
X) be in the sixth house, the sickness will be of its
average duration; if a fixed sign (0, SI, HI °r xs), the
disease will be long and hard to cure; if a moveable
sign (T, 25, or Vf) be in the sixth, the sickness will
be short; and, if the last few degrees of a sign be on the
cusp of the sixth, a change for the better or worse is at
hand, and the issue will quickly determine.
A benefic planet in the sixth (and not ruler of the
sixth), dignified, the sickness will soon be over and re¬
covery complete.
The lord of the ascendant and ]) well placed, swift in
motion, and well aspected, the disease will be brief and
recovery ensue.
Both luminaries cadent, their depositors unfortunate,
and the lord of the ascendant afflicted by fj, or l; in the
sixth in a fixed sign, expect a long illness, and one
difficult to cure.
The lord of the ascendant or ]) in the sixth house,
afflicted by the rulers of the fourth, sixth, and eighth
houses, the sickness will be long, and the cure delayed.
All the significators of the sickness in fixed signs, the
patient will be long ill; and if ]) be afflicted and apply¬
ing to the d or evil aspect of the lord of the eighth, the
illness is of a severe if not dangerous type.
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The ernes may be known by watching for the times
when the )) reaches the semi-quartile, the quartile, oppo¬
sition, and conjunction with her own place in the figure
for the decumbiture, according to the nature of the ill¬
ness. If when the ]) reaches one of these points she be
at the same time in sextile or trine aspect with Jupiter,
Venus, or the Sun, there will be a change for the better;
but, if } be in (j or evil aspect with an infortune, the
crisis will be an unfavourable one.
Example. —Dr. H. was seized with expectoration of
blood at 6 h a.m. of May 16th, 1865 (London). R.A.
of M.C., 21 h 35 m 51”. Ascendant n 27°. Uranus
rising in n 27° 39'. The Moon in Vf 29° 31', in oppo¬
sition to Mars in <s 25° 16', and in square with Saturn
in 24° 56'ft. He died of pulmonary phthisis on the
25th of September, 1865, when Saturn arrived at the
exact square aspect of the Moon’s place at the first
attack of haemoptysis. The Moon was afflicted by the
lord of the sixth house, Mars, and the lord of the eighth,
Saturn. Scorpio, a fixed sign, was in the sixth house,
and its lord ( had dignities in the eighth {Vf). The
Moon had no adequate assistance from the fortunes.
The lord of the ascendant ( $5 ) was retrograde in a fixed
sign ( Q ). Mars, the ruler of the sixth house, was in
Cancer, the sign that rules the chest.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
HORARY ASTROLOGY— Continued.
We now come to the questions relating to the seventh
house, and to marriage.
Whether the querent shall marry a certain person ?
The ascendant and its lord are for the querent; the
descendant and its lord are for the quesited. A planet
within 5° of the horizon becomes a co-significator. The
© is for the lady, the 5 is for the man.
If the lord of the ascendant dispose of the lord of the
seventh, the querent is beloved by the quesited, and
vice versa. If there be mutual reception between the
lords of the ascendant and descendant, the love is mutual.
If the lord of the first house or the ]) apply to <3 or
good aspect with the lord of the seventh, or planet
therein, the match may be effected by the querent’s
exertions. If there be translation of light between the
significators, the match may be brought about by the
intervention of a friend of the nature of the planet
which translates the light. If the significators be in
angles, and in good aspect by application and in mutual
reception, the Sun and Moon also applying to mutual
benefic aspect, and no evil planet interpose by quartile
or opposition ray, the match will certainly take place.
An additional testimony is the good aspect of Venus
to either of the significators, if she be in an angle and
free from affliction. If Venus be much afflicted, no
good will come of the affair.
If there be no good aspects between the significators,
and if they be afflicted, in no reception, and unaided
by Venus, the match will not be effected.
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If the significators be all separating from good
aspects, and Venus be afflicted, there will be no
marriage. If the testimonies be contradictory there
will be no immediate marriage, and the question may
be deferred to a future day if the querent should still
desire to bring it about.
If there be signs of marriage, yet some evil planet
impede it, see what house such planet rules; if it be
the second, pecuniary difficulties will interpose; if the
third, the querent’s kindred object; if it be the fourth,
either the father of the querent or the mother of the-
quesited will interfere to prevent it.
Questions relating to the ninth house.
Whether a certain voyage will be safe, and advan¬
tageous to the querent ?
If the lord of the ascendant be strong and in good
aspect with the lord of the ninth (or with a benefic in
the ninth), and if the lord of the ninth be well placed,
the contemplated voyage will be both safe and advan¬
tageous. But, if Saturn or Mars be in the ninth house,
and especially if at the same time in evil aspect with
the lord of the ascendant or the ]), the voyage had
better be deferred. The ]) in the ninth house and
afflicted is a testimony of danger or loss. A benefic in
the tenth or fourth house is a good testimony. If the
fourth be afflicted, the voyage will end badly.
Questions relating to the tenth house.
1. Whether the querent shall obtain employment or
office ?
If the lords of the ascendant and of the tenth, and
the Sun and Moon be well aspected and in mutual
reception and strong, the querent will obtain the em¬
ployment or office he is seeking. The lord of the tenth
house located in the ascendant and in good aspect with
the lord of the ascendant or ]), presignifies success.
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SCIENCE OP THE STABS.
The lord of the ascendant in the tenth and well aspected,
is a favourable testimony. The J) separating from the
lord of the tenth and applying to the lord of the
ascendant, is very favourable. Any assistance from
the lord of the fourth, or from a benefic in an angle, is
a token of success. Malefics, if strong and in good
aspect with the lord of the ascendant, show success, but
with some difficulty or delay. Benefics promise speedy
success. If an evil planet afflict the lord of the ascend¬
ant, or planet in the ascendant, or the ]), without re¬
ception, the employment will not be obtained.
2. Whether the querent shall continue in his employ¬
ment or office ?
This question may be judged in the same way as the
last. The ]) in the tenth and well aspected, or in good
configuration with the lord of the tenth, especially with
reception, the querent will continue in his employment.
Fixed signs in the ascendant and tenth are favourable;
moveable signs are unfavourable. The lord of the
ascendant cadent, in a moveable sign, and afflicted, the
querent will hardly retain his employment.
Example. —On the 3rd of January, 1878, at 4 h p.m.
(London), the author received a letter from a friend
who had been long out of employment and who had
nearly exhausted his means in seeking some. The
figure was radical for the same sign and almost the
same degree ascended as at the querent’s birth, and his
great anxiety was unquestionable.
Upon casting the figure, R.A. of M.C., 22 h 52 m 34*,
the student will find 55 14° in the ascendant; j) in the
western angle, in Yf 14° 10', and hastening to conjunc¬
tion with 1/ in Yf 14° 44'; in the tenth, in X 15° 34'.
Finding that the J wanted but half a degree to complete
her conjunction with 1/, in a moveable sign and angle,
the author gave it as his opinion that if there were any
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truth in horary astrology, the querent would obtain
employment within a fortnight. This forecast was
exactly verified, for on the 12th of January the querent
obtained an appointment, to his great surprise and joy.
This sketch of horary astrology must now be brought
to a conclusion. The author desires it to be distinctly
understood that he deprecates the application of horary
astrology to idle questions ; to impress on his readers
that it is only applicable to affairs of the greatest
moment and at times of the deepest anxiety, and to the
moment of occurrence of events.
Bearing in mind the low ebb to which astrology sank,
owing to the absurd and unwarrantable use made of the
horary branch of it, in the middle ages, as satirised in
“ Sidrophel,” it is impossible for the lover of truth for
its own sake to wish that it should ever again become
“ popular ” in that sense. In the hands of the intelligent
Mid highly educated portion of the community, and of
philosophers, astrology in all its branches might be made
of the highest utility, and could be greatly improved.
It is a mistaken notion that the votaries of astrology,
at the present day, are to be found almost entirely
among the uneducated classes. The one hundred and
fifty thousand purchasers of ZadkieVs Almanac belong
chiefly to the educated portion of the public. A
moment’s consideration given to the contents of that
popular Almanac will serve to show that they are
utterly beyond the comprehension of the illiterate. The
best writers on astrology do not pander to the tastes of
the vulgar, nor encourage the superstitions of the
ignorant. The fact is that knowledge of astrology and an
intelligent faith in it spread concurrently with education.
Those of my readers who wish to pursue the science
will find every aid afforded to them in “ The Text-Book
of Astrology.”
APPENDIX.
ASTROLOGICAL VOCABULARY.
Accidental Positions. —These are the positions of
the Sun, Moon, planets, and fixed stars in the various
“ houses ” of the heavens at a birth, solar ingress, new
moon, eclipse, etc. They are mundane positions. A
planet in the ascendant, descendant, or either meridian,
is said to be dignified “ accidentally."
Affliction .—When the Sun, Moon, or a planet is in
conjunction, parallel declination, semi-quartile, quartile,
sesquiquadrate, or opposition with an evil planet, it is
said to be afflicted. Au evil planet within 5° of the
ascendant or meridian, or in any evil aspect to either
angle, is said to afflict it.
Airy Signs. —Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius, form the
airy triplicity.
Altitude .—The angular distance of a heavenly body
from the horizon, measured in the direction of a great
circle passing through the zenith.
Anar eta .—The planet that destroys life.
Angles .—The cardinal points are the commencement
of the angles, which are the ascendant, upper meridian,
descendant, and lower meridian.
Annual Variation of the right ascension or declina¬
tion of a star is the change produced in either element
by the effect of the precession of the equinoxes and
proper motion of the star taken together.
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Anomalistic Period. —The time of revolution of a
primary or secondary planet in reference to its line of
apsides. In the case of the earth, this period is termed
the anomalistic year; in that of the Moon, the anoma¬
listic month.
Aphelion. —That point in the orbit of a planet or
comet which is most distant from the Sun, and at which
the angular motion is slowest.
Apogee. —That point in the Moon’s orbit which is
furthest from the earth; the point in the earth’s orbit
which is furthest from the Sun. The greatest distance
of any heavenly body from the earth.
Apparent Motion. —The motion of the celestial bodies
as viewed from the earth.
Apparent Place of a star for any day is the position
it appears to occupy in the heavens, as affected with
abberation and nutation.
Apparent Noon. —The moment that the Sun’s centre
is on the meridian of a place.
Apparent Obliquity. —The obliquity of the ecliptic
affected with nutation.
Application. —The motion of any celestial body to¬
wards the conjunction or aspect of another.
Apsides, Line of. —The imaginary line joining the
aphelion and perihelion points in the orbit of a planet.
Aquarius. —The eleventh sign of the zodiac, which
the Sun enters on or about the 21st of January. It is
one of the ancient zodiacal constellations.
Arc. —The distance between any two points in the
heavens.
Arc of Direction. —The arc described by a planet
when directed to another. The measure thereof is
usually termed the arc of direction. Also the measure
of the distance between any two points in the heavens,
expressed in degrees and minutes.
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SCIENCE OP THE STABS.
Arc, Diurnal. —That part of a circle parallel to the
equator described by a celestial body from its rising to
its setting.
Arc, Nocturnal. —That part of a circle parallel to the
equator described by a celestial body from its setting to
rising.
Argument is a term used to denote any number or
quantity by means of which another may be found.
Aries. —The first sign of the zodiac, which the Sun
enters at the vernal equinox on the 21st of March. It
is one of the ancient zodiacal constellations. The com¬
mencement of this sign, termed the Jirst point of Aries,
is the origin from which the right-ascensions of the
heavenly bodies are reckoned on lie equator, and their
longitudes on the ecliptic.
Ascendant. —The eastern angle or first “ house.”
Ascension, Oblique. —The oblique ascension is the arc
of the equator between the first point of Aries and the
point of the equator which rises with a celestial body,
reckoned according to the order of the signs.
Ascension, Right. —The distance of a heavenly body
from the first point of Aries, measured upon the equator.
Ascensional Difference. —The difference between the
right and oblique ascension.
Asteroids. —A name proposed by Sir W. Herschel
for the minor planets between the orbits of Mars and
Jupiter. They are chiefly out of the zodiac, and for
this reason are not considered to have any influence in
nativities. Still, when they happen to be in conjunc¬
tion with either the Sun or Moon near the ecliptic, it
might be advisable for the student to watch for any
effects.
Aspects. —Certain distances between any points in
the heavens. Those generally found to have foree
are : 18°, 24°, 30°, 36°, 45°, 60°, 72°, 90°, 108°, 1120°,
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135°, 144°, 150°, and 180°. The conjunction (when
two heavenly bodies have the same longitude), and the
parallel declination are usually included in the term
“ aspects.” See Kepler’s definition of aspects, p. 4.
Aspects, Benefic, are the following: the vigintile
(18°), quindecile (24°), semi-sextile (30°), decile (36°),
sextile (60°), quintile (72°), tredecile (108°), trine (120°),
biquintile (144°). The quincunx (150°) was supposed
by Kepler to be a good aspect, but experience teaches
that it is only good when formed by a good planet, and
that when formed by an evil planet, it is evil, like the
<3 and par. dec. The sextile and trine are the most
powerfully good aspects.
Aspects, Malefic, are the following: the semi-quartile
(45°), the quartile (90°), the sesquiquadrate (135°),
and the opposition (180°).
Barren Signs. —The signs Gemini, Leo, and Virgo.
Benefics .—The planets Jupiter and Venus ; also the
Bun when strong and well aspected.
Besieged .—A planet found between two others. If
between 1/ and $ , it is fortunate; if between Tj and <$,
<J and Ijjl, or ^ and ]j[, it is very unfortunate.
Bicorporal Signs are Gemini, Sagittarius (the first
half of), and Pisces.
Biquintile .—The aspect of 144°.
Cadent. —Falling trom angles. Planets in the third,
sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses are cadent
Cancer .—The fourth sign of the zodiac, which the
Sun enters about the 21st of June, and one of the
ancient zodiacal constellations. The beginning of the
sign Cancer, 90° distant from the first point of Aries, is
called the Simmer Solstice.
Capricomus .—The tenth sign of the zodiac, which
the Sun enteis about the 21st of December, and one of
the ancient zodiacal constellations. The beginning of
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the sign Capricornus, 270° from the first point of Aries,
is called the Winter Solstice.
Cardinal Points of the Ecliptic .—The equinoctial
and solstitial points, viz. the first point of Aries and
Libra, and of Cancer and Capricornus.
Cardinal Signs. —Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capri¬
cornus.
Climacterical Years .—The years in life corresponding
to the place of the Moon on those days after birth when
she arrives at the square (90°) or trine (120°) of her
place at birth. They are the seventh, ninth, fourteenth,
eighteenth, twenty-first, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth,
thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, forty-second, forty-filth, forty-
ninth, fifty-fourth, fifty-sixth, sixty-third, and seven¬
tieth. The forty-ninth and sixty-third are held to be
the most important. Great changes are frequently
observed in these years.
Colours of the Planets, etc .—In horary astrology,
the Sun is yellow; the Moon white, or silver; Mercury,
light blue or striped; Venus, white; Mars, fiery red;
Jupiter, red mixed with green; Saturn, black. Uranus
and Neptune have no colours assigned to them, at
present. The signs of the zodiac have colours assigned
to them, thus: T white and red; 0 red mixed with
citron ; n red and white mixed; $ green or russet; SI
red or green; up black spotted with blue; black or
dark brown; dark brown; flight green or olive;
Vf black or very dark brown; sr sky blue; H pure
white, or glistening. These colours were made use
of to describe the dress of the quesited in horary
questions.
Combust or Combustion .—A planet was said to be
combust, or burnt up, when very near the Sun,
especially within 5°. In nativities it was held that the
Sun takes the character of the planet, which loses its
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power. In horary questions, when the significator of
the querent, or quesited, is within 5° of the Sun, it was
thought to show a sickly and unfortunate person; and
in all things it was considered a very evil testimony.
Later experience shows that a planet within 5° of the
Sun does not lose its power—in nativities.
Common Signs. —Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and
Pisces.
Configurations .—The relative positions of celestial
bodies.
Conjunction. — Two heavenly bodies are said to be in
conjunction when they have the same longitude. In
astronomy they are also said to be in when they have
the same right-ascension. The Moon is in conjunction
with the Sun at the time of new Moon, both luminaries
having then the same longitude—this is the ecliptic
conjunction. In judicial astrology the conjunction is
considered good with benefic planets, and evil with
Mars, Saturn, and Uranus. But the (j of $ and is
not evil, because these planets are “ friendly.”
Constellation .—A number of stars included within
an imaginary figure in order that they may be the more
easily identified. There are forty-eight constellations,
which were formed more than two thousand years since,
and are all referred to by Claudius Ptolemy in his great
work called the “ Almagest.” These are usually called
the ancient constellations. Others were introduced by
Hevelius, and more recently M. de Lacaille has added a
considerable number to fill up vacant spaces in the
southern heavens. 1
1 See the description of the constellations given in the
“ Introduction to Astronomy ” by Mr. J. R. Hind, F.E.A.S.
Also the chapter on “ Signs and Constellations of the zodiac,”
in the first volume of the “ Text-Book of Astrology.”
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
Converse Motion. —When the significator appears to
move from east to west by reason of the rotation of the
earth.
Co-significators. —The ]) is the co-significator of the
querent, in horary astrology, in all questions except
those relating to love and marriage. See p. 146.
Copemican System. —The received theory of the
Universe. More correctly the Pythagorean system.
Its main facts were taught by Pythagoras, a celebrated
Greek philosopher, who flourished about 500 years
before the Christian era. Mr. Hind says: “ It is even
probable that some of the principles of the received
system were current among the ancient Egyptians, a
nation which distinguished itself for its acquaintance
with the science of astronomy.” In this system the Sun
occupies the central place, and the planets with their
attendant satellites revolve about him. Because this
system was revived by Copernicus, a Prussian astro¬
nomer, in the sixteenth century, it is called the Coper-
nican system ; nevertheless, the honour properly belongs
to Pythagoras. The fact that Pythagoras believed in
astrology is concealed by modern astronomers who are
ever ready to repeat the parrot-cry that it was the
Copernican system that overthrew astrology. See p. 22.
Critical Days. —Those on which the Moon forms a
major aspect with her own place at the moment of a
patient being first seized with illness. See p. 145.
Culminate. —To reach the meridian.
Cusp. —The commencement of any one of the twelve
houses of the heavens.
Cycle. —A term generally applied to an interval of
time in which the same phenomena recur.
Cycle of Eclipses. —A period of about 6,586 days,
which is the time of a revolution of the Moon’s node:
r ter the lapse of this period, eclipses recur in the same
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order as before, with few exceptions. This cycle was
known to the ancients under the name of Saros.
Cycle, Solar. —A period of 28 years, after which the
days of the week correspond in the same order to the
days of the month.
Decanatb.— The signs were divided into three equal
parts of 10° each, beginning with T 0°. The first 10°
of T belonged to <$, the second decanate to the ©, the
third to ? . Each following decanate was assigned to a
planet in the order following : viz. 5 > J> > h > 1/ > <5 >
©, ? . This is the same order as that of the planetary-
hours (see p. 129). A planet in its own decanate was
considered to be dignified.
Decile. —The aspect of 36°.
Declination. —The angular distance of a heavenly
body from the equator, either north or south. The
complement of the declination is termed the polar
distance.
Decumbiture. —A map of the heavens drawn for the
moment at which a sufferer first goes to bed ill, is
termed the “ decumbiture.”
Degree. —In the sexagesimal division of the circle,
the degree is the 860th part of the circumference.
Descendant. —The western horizon.
Detriment. —A planet located in the sign opposite to
his own “ house,” is said to be in his “ detriment.”
Thus,!/when in tip is said to be in his detriment.
Diameter, Apparent. —The angle which the diameter
of a heavenly body subtends at any time, varying in¬
versely with its distance. The semi-diameter of the
Sun and Moon, is given daily in the Nautical Almanac.
In computing the arc of direction of a zodiacal parallel,
the semi-diameter of © or ]) should always be allowed
for, and the arc of direction worked over again, for
when falling near the tropic the arc of duration of a
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zodiacal parallel, from the first to the last contact, is
very great.
Dignities .—Those situations in which a planet is
found to be most powerful.
Direct Motion .—A celestial body is said to have
direct motion when it advances in the order of the signs
of the zodiac, or in the direction of the earth’s annual
revolution.
Directions .—These are calculations of the arc, or
measure of the equator, between any two points in the
heavens. Seep. 112.
Dispose .—When one planet is found in the dignities
of another, the latter is said to dispose of him, thus: 1/
in tip is disposed of by 5 •
Disposers .—The planets were called the disposers by
the ancients, as in the first verse of Genesis (in the
original Hebrew); being regarded as the disposers of
all things.
Domal Dignity .—A planet in his own “ house,” as
2 in H or tip.
Dragon’s Head and Tail .—The Moon’s north node
was called the Dragon’s head, and her south node the
dragon’8 tail. “ The Moon’s course was early dis¬
covered to be of a serpentine form; and, when she was
found to rise above the plane of the earth’s course about
the Sun towards the north, she was feigned to pass the
head of the dragon. So, when she crossed the ecliptic
into south latitude, she was said to go through the
dragon’s tail.” (Zadkiel). The dragon's head was
considered fortunate, and the dragon’s tail unfortunate.
It is absurd to think that either of these points can
exert any influence.
Earthy Signs. —Taurus, Virgo, and Capricornus.
Eclipse .—An obscuration of a heavenly body owing
to the interposition of another, or to its passage through
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the shadow of a larger body. In astrology the eclipses
of the Sun and Moon only have any significance. See
p. 24. .
Ecliptic. —The great circle of the heavens which the
Sun appears to describe in the course of the year, in
consequence of the earth’s motion round him. The
plane of the ecliptic or of the earth’s path is the general
plane of reference in astronomy. It forms an angle of
23° 27' with the equator, which is consequently the
measure of the inclination of the earth’s axis to that of
her orbit or the ecliptic, and is termed the obliquity of
the ecliptic.
Elevated. —The planet that is nearest the meridian is
elevated above any other with which it may be in aspect.
Elevation of the Pole. —The latitude of the birth¬
place.
Elongation. —The angular distance of a heavenly
body from the Sun, eastward or westward.
Emersion. —The reappearance of a body after under¬
going eclipse, or occultation by the Moon.
Ephemeris. —A daily tabular statement of the geo¬
centric longitudes, latitudes, and declinations of the Sun,
Moon, and planets. Zadkiel’s Ephemeris has been
regularly published since the year 1840, and has been
much improved since 1878. It is the most useful work
of its kind, for astrological purposes. In Urania, for
1880, the author gave a more complete Ephemeris
(the planets’ longitudes and declinations being given
to seconds), but its publication is suspended for the
present, owing to paucity of subscribers.
Equation oj Time. —In astrology, this signifies the
turning into time of the arc of direction. The best
method is that of Ptolemy, viz., the luni-solar. which
gives one year of life for each degree of the arc of
direction, and one month for every five minutes of arc.
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Equinoctial Signs .—Aries and Libra.
Equinoxes .—The two points of intersection of the
Ecliptic and the Equator; so called, because on the Sun’s
arrival at either point, the night is equal in length to
the day, throughout the world. That point (T 0°)
where the Sun crosses the Equator, going north, is
termed the vernal equinox; and the opposite point
(£± 0°) is the autumnal equinox.
Exaltation .—The most powerful dignity of a planet
See the Table of Essential Dignities, p. 175.
Fall. —A planet’s fall is in the point opposite to its
exaltation.
Familiarities .—The same as configurations. Also
when two planets have mutual reception.
Feminine Signs. —Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio,
Capricornus, and Pisces were termed by Ptolemy
feminine signs. It is an absurd distinction.
Feral .—Persons bom with either the sign Leo or the
latter half of Sagittarius rising, were said to be feral,
or fierce as a lion.
Fiery Signs. —Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.
Figure .—The map of the heavens drawn for a given
moment is sometimes spoken of as the figure of the
heavens.
Fixed Signs. —Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius.
Fixed Stars .—All the stars, except the planets, are
termed fixed stars, owing to their apparent fixity in the
sky. They only exert influence when within 5° of the
Sun, Moon, ascendant or meridian at birth. Only those
of the first magnitude, and clusters, are considered in
nativities. A table of eminent fixed stars will be found
in the first volume of the “ Text-Book of Astrology.”
The tables of fixed stars given in other astrological
works are all faulty and misleading.
Fortunes .—The planets Jupiter and Venus, also the
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Sun when he is well placed and in configuration with
the benefics.
Fruitful Signs. —Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces,
Frustration .—A term used in horary astrology.
When one planet applies to another, and before the
aspect can be completed, another intervenes and forms
an aspect with the one receiving the application. This
is said to destroy or frustrate the affair which would
otherwise be brought about.
Gemini. —The third sign of the zodiac, which the
Sun enters about the 21st of May. It is one of the
ancient zodiacal constellations.
Genethliacal .—That which applies to the geniture,
or nativity.
Geocentric .—As viewed from the centre of the earth. •
Giver of Life .—The “ hyleg,” or that on which life
depends.
Heliocentric. —As seen from, or having reference to
the centre of the Sun.
Hemisphere .—Half the surface of the heavens. The
celestial equator divides the heavens into two hemi¬
spheres, the northern and the southern. The visible
hemisphere is that which is always exposed to view.
Houses .—These are described at pp. 11, 136.
Human Signs. —Gemini, Virgo, and Aquarius. An
eclipse falling in one of these signs is said to pre-signify
impoitant effects on the human race.
Hyleg .—That point which carries with it the life.
Hyleyliacal Places are the first, seventh, ninth,
tenth, and eleventh houses of the heavens. See p. 80.
Immersion.— The disappearance of a heavenly body
when undergoing eclipse.
Impeded or Impedited .—A term applied to the
Moon when she is in conjunction, square, or opposition
with either the Sun, Mars, or Saturn.
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Imum Cceli. —The lower meridian, or fourth house.
Inconjunct. —When a heavenly body has no famili¬
arity with another.
Increasing in Light. —When the Moon or any
planet is leaving the Sun, until the opposition is
reached: it is a good testimony.
Inferior Conjunction of Mercury or Venus.—The
planet is said to be in inferior conjunction when it is
situated in the same longitude as the Sun, and between
that luminary and the earth.
Inferior Planets. —Mercury and Venus, which
revolve in orbits interior to that of the earth.
Infortunes. —Mars, Saturn, and Uranus. The Moon
and Mercury become infortunes when configurated
solely with either Mars, Saturn, or Uranus.
Ingresses. —When a planet passes over a point in
the zodiac to which the Sun, Moon, Midheaven, or
Ascendant has arrived by direction, it is said to ingress
thereon. An ingress has not much effect unless it takes
place near the birthday-anniversary.
Intercepted. —A sign lying between the cusps of two
houses.
Latitude. —The distance of any point in the heavens
north or south of the ecliptic.
Leo. —The fifth sign of the zodiac, which the Sun
enters about the 22nd of July; it is one of the ancient
zodiacal constellations.
Libra. —The seventh sign of the zodiac, which the
Sun enters about the 21st of September; it is one of
the ancient zodiacal constellations. The commence¬
ment of the sign Libra, where the equator intersects
the ecliptic, is called the autumnal equinox.
Light of Time. —The © by day, and ]) by night.
Limb. —The border of the disc of the Sun, Moon, or
a planet. . ' . CiOOqIc
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Logarithms .—Artificial numbers of great use in
astronomical calculations.
Longitude, Geocentric .—The angular distance of a
heavenly body from the first point of Aries, measured
upon the ecliptic, as viewed from the earth.
Longitude, Heliocentric .—The angular distance of
a body from the first point of Aries, measured upon the
ecliptic, as seen from the Sun.
Longitude of a Place upon the Earth’s surface, is the
arc intercepted between its meridian and that of some
other fixed station used as a line of reference. The
English astronomers and geographers reckon their
longitudes from the meridian of the Greenwich Royal
Observatory; the whole circumference being divided
into 360°, or 24 hours, each hour corresponding to 15°.
Longitude of Perihelion .—The longitude, as viewed
from the Sun, of that point of the orbit of a planet
which is nearest to him. It is one of the elements of an
orbit.
Lord .—That planet which has rule in any sign, as
his “ house,” is called the lord of that sign. The lord
of the year is that planet ruling the ascending sign at
the Solar ingress into Aries. The lord of an eclipse is
the planet ruling the sign in which it falls.
Luminaries .—The Sun and Moon.
Lunation .—A lunar period, or synodical revolution.
Magnitudes of Stars. —Their relative degree of
brightness. The fixed stars are arranged into classes
according to their intensity of light. The first six classes
include ail those which are distinctly visible to the naked
eye.
Malefic8 .—Saturn, Uranus, and Mars. Saturn is the
“ greater infortune ” of the ancients.
Masculine Planets .—The ancients reckoned the Sun,
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn as masculine; Mercury as
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convertible according to position ; Venus and the Moon
as feminine.
Masculine Signs. —Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra,
Sagittarius, and Aquarius.
Matutine .—Those stars which rise before the Sun
were called matutine.
Mean Noon .—The time when the centre of the mean
Sun is on the meridian.
Meridian .—The great circle of the heavens passing
through the zenith and the poles. The plane of the
meridian is the plane of this great circle, and its inter¬
section with the sensible horizon is called the meridian
line.
Mundane Aspects are formed by the semi-arcs of the
celestial bodies. (See p. 42 of Vol. I of the “Text-
Book of Astrology.”)
Mundane Parallels are equal distances from the
meridian.
Nadir.— The point immediately beneath an observer;
it is one of the poles of the rational horizon, the opposite
pole being the zenith.
Nebula .—A cluster of stars so closely congregated as
to require very powerful telescopes to separate them,
and appearing in smaller instruments as cloud-like spots.
Neomenium .—The new Moon.
Nocturnal Arc .—The space through which any
celestial body passes while below the horizon.
Nodes .—Those points in the orbit of a planet where
it intersects the Ecliptic. The ascending node ( S ) is
the point where it passes from the south to the north
side of the Ecliptic ; the descending node (S ) is the
opposite point, where the latitude changes from north to
south.
Northern Signs. —Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer,
Leo, and Virgo.
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Nutation .—An oscillatory motion of the Earth’s axis,
due chiefly to the action of the Moon upon the spheroidal
figure of our globe.
Oblique Ascension. —See Ascension, Oblique.
Oblique Sphere .—One in which all circles parallel to
the Equator are oblique to the horizon, and form acute
angles with it.
Obliquity of the Ecliptic .—The inclination of the
Ecliptic to the Equator, which amounts at present to
about 23° 27'.
Occidental. —Western.
Occultation .—As a general term, implies the eclipsing
of one heavenly body by another. It is, however, com¬
monly used to denote the eclipses of stars and planets
by the Moon.
Opposition .—A heavenly body is said to be in
opposition to another when their longitudes differ 180°,
or half the circumference.
Orbit .—The path described by a planet about the
Sun.
Orb of a Planet .—The distance within which a
planetary aspect continues in force. The orb of the
0 is 17°, J) 12°, $ 7°, ? 8°, <J 7°, V 12°, h 9°,
Ijl 5°, tjt unknown.
Oriental. —Eastern. When a star is to the east of
the upper meridian (M.C.), it is said to be oriental ;
when to the west, occidental.
Parallax. —An apparent change in the position of a
celestial body, arising from a change of the observer’s
station. It diminishes the altitude of an object in the
vertical circle. Its effect is greatest in the horizon,
where it it is termed the horizontal parallax, and dis¬
appears altogether in the zenith.
Parallels of Declination .—These are secondary circles,
parallel to the celestial equator. In astrology the
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parallels of declination—termed, also, zodiacal parallels
—are very potent.
Parents. —In nativities the © and Jj relate to the
father; the ]) and $ to the mother. The fortune and
length of life of the parents are believed to be pre¬
signified by the accidental positions and configurations
of those bodies in the nativity of a child. See pp. 120-
123 of the first vol. of the “ Text-Book of Astrology.”
Pars Fortunce. —The “ Part of Fortune.” Invented
by Ptolemy. It is that point of the horoscope whereon
the rays of the Sun and Moon converge, and where the
Moon would be if the Sun were exactly rising. In
nativities it is an absurdity. In horary questions
relating to money, it is usual to consider its position.
The place of the pars fortunce (©) is thus found (in
horary figures):—From the longitude of the 5 subtract
that of the 0, and to the difference add the long, of the
ascendant; the sum is the long, of ©.
Partite. —An exact or perfect aspect.
Peregrine. —A peregrine planet is one having no
kind of essential dignity. In horary astrology, in a
question relating to stolen goods, a peregrine planet in
the seventh house was taken as the significator of the
thief.
Perigee. —That point in the orbit of a heavenly body
where it is nearest to the earth.
Perihelion. —That point in the orbit of a planet
which is nearest to the Sun.
Periodical Lunation. —The time required by the
Moon to return to her own place in the horoscope, viz.
27a 7b 41m.
Pisces. —The twelfth sign of the zodiac, which the
Sun enters about the 21st of February. It is one of
the ancient zodiacal constellations.
Planet, Minor. —The minor planets are small bodies
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revolving between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, which
have all been discovered since the beginning of this
century. They were termed asteroids by Sir W.
Herschel.
Planet, Primary. —The primary planets which are
found to exert influence are seven in number, viz..
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune. The asteroids are not considered. Uranus
was discovered by Sir W. Herschel, on the 13th of
March, 1781. Neptune was discovered on the 23rd of
September, 1846, in consequence of the calculations
of M. Le Verrier and Mr. Adams, who had found,
from the anomalous movements of Uranus, that a
distant planet must exist nearly in the position wherein
Neptune was situated.
Planetary Hours. —These are described at p. 128.
Planisphere. —The celestial sphere projected on a
plane surface. 2
Platic.—' This means wide. It is used to denote an
aspect within half the sum of the orbs of the two bodies
casting the rays which form such aspect.
Pleiades. —A remarkable cluster of stars in the last
decanate of Taurus, seven or eight of which are visible
to the naked eye; the telescope reveals more than two
hundred. Job refers to the “ mild influences of the
Pleiades.”
Promittor. —That planet which promises to produce
the event. The planet applying to the significator, or
to which the significator applies. In Nativities the
planet to which the ©, ]), § > M.C., or Asc. applies is
the promittor.
s The best extant is “ The Planisphere and Treatise,” by
H. B. London: J. E. Catty, Paternoster Eow.
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SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
Proper Motion. —That which is direct in the order
of the signs of the zodiac.
Prorogator. —The planet which upholds life.
Pythagorean System, now called the Copernican.
Quadrature, or Quartile. —A difference of 90° in
the longitudes of two celestial bodies. It is often termed
the sguare aspect.
Querent. —The person who inquires, or asks the
horary question.
Quesited. —The person or thing inquired about
Quincunx. —A difference of long, of 150°.
Quindecile. —A difference of long, of 24°.
Quintile. — A difference of long, of 72°.
Radical. —That which pertains to the radix, or na¬
tivity. In horary astrology a figure is radical if the
same sign ascends as at birth. If the ]) be in the last
3° of a sign, or if the first or last 2° of a sign ascend,
the figure was considered unfit for judgment.
Radical Elections. —Times chosen for commencing
new undertakings. These will be fully treated of in the
second volume of the “ Text-Book of Astrology.”
Rapt potion. —The daily apparent motion of the
heavens from east to west.
Rapt Parallels. —Equal distances from the meridian
formed by rapt motion and measured by the semi-arcs
of the bodies directed.
Rays. —Beams of influence constituting aspects.
Reception. —The disposing of one planet by another.
Rectification. —The discovery of the true (astro¬
logical) moment of birth by comparing the periods of
events 'with the directions that should produce them.
See pp. 205-214 of the first volume of the “ Text-Book
of Astrology.”
Refraction. —Owing to the property which the air
possesses, a ray of light from a star, in entering the
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earth’s atmosphere, is bent downwards towards its
surface, and therefore reaches the eye of an observer
with a different direction to that it would have if no
atmosphere existed. This refraction causes all the
celestial bodies to appear at a greater altitude above the
horizon than they really are ; and the accurate numeri¬
cal determination of the amount of refraction is of the
greatest importance in many classes of astronomical
observations.
Refranation .—When one of two planets, approaching
a mutual aspect, falls retrograde before the aspect can
be completed. In horary astrology this is held to pre¬
signify that the event, otherwise promised by the aspect,
will come to nothing.
Retro gradation .—An apparent motion of the planets
contrary to the order of the signs and to their orbital
motion. In nativities it was formerly held that a retro¬
grade planet can do little or no good unless otherwise
well dignified. It is an absurd notion, and is now
abandoned. In horary astrology a retrograde planet
pre-signifies that nothing promised by it can be relied
upon.
Revolutions, Solar .—The return of the Sun to his
place at birth. The aspects formed at a Solar revolu¬
tion, especially those to the radical places of the planets,
denote the general influences throughout the ensuing
year of life. See p. 120.
Right Ascension .—See Ascension, Right.
Right Sphere .—One in which all the circles that are
parallel to the equator form right angles with the
horizon.
Sagittarius. —The ninth sign of the zodiac, which
the Sun enters about the 21st of November; it is one
of the ancient zodiacal constellations.
Saros .—See Cycle of Eclipses.
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
Satellites .—These are the secondary planets or
Moons, which revolve about some of the primary
planets; the Moon is a satellite of the earth. Jupiter
is accompanied by four satellites, discovered in 1610 by
Galileo. Saturn has eight satellites. Mars has two
satellites. Uranus has four at least, possibly six.
Neptune has but one satellite.
Scheme. —A map of the heavens.
Scorpio. —The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the
Sun enters about the 22nd of October; it is one of the
zodiacal constellations.
Secondary Directions. —Those aspects formed, after
birth, to the ©, D, Asc. and M.C. They may be
traced in the Ephemeris for the year of birth. Every
day is reckoned as equal to a year of life. They are
much weaker than primary directions, and of very
slight importance.
Semi-Arc. —Half a diurnal or nocturnal arc.
Semis-quartile. —A difference of 45° in longitude
between two bodies.
Semi-sextile. —A difference of 30° in longitude
between two bodies.
Separation. —When two planets having been in
partile aspect with each other begin to move away
therefrom.
Sesqui-quare. —The difference of 135° in longitude
between two bodies.
Sextile. —A difference of 60° in longitude.
Signijicator. —The planet ruling the ascendant is
significator of the querent, in horary astrology; also,
any planet which happens to be within 5° of the eastern
horizon. In nativities, the significators are the ©, ]),
5, Asc., and M.C.
Signs of Long Ascension. —Cancer, Leo, Virgo,
Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius. These are so termed
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because they take a loDger time to ascend than the rest.
A sextile aspect falling in these signs was said to have
the effect of a square, but this notion is not supported
by experience.
Signs of Short Ascension. —Capricornus, Aquarius,
Pisces, Aries, Taurus, and Gemini. A trine aspect
formed in these signs was said to have the same effect
as a square; but this notion is not warranted by
experience.
Southern Signs. —Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capri¬
cornus, Aquarius, and Pisces.
Southing. —The meridian transit of a celestial body.
Speculum. —A table comprising the chief data by
means of which primary directions are computed in a
nativity. It usually contains the latitude, declination,
right-ascension, meridian distance (in right-ascension),
and semi-arc of each planet.
Sphere. —The figure formed by the rotation of a
circle.
Stationary. —When a planet appears to have no
motion among the stars it is said to be stationary. In
nativities, the effect is very powerful when a superior
planet is stationary in the place of the ©, 5 , Asc., or
M.C., especially when it occurs near the birthday-anni¬
versary.
Succedent. —Those houses which follow the angles,
viz. the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh.
Superior Planets. —Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
and Neptune.
Sympathy. —When the signifieators in the nativity
of one person happen to be in the same places in the
zodiac as in the nativity of another, there is mutual
sympathy between such persons. The strongest is
when the © in the one nativity is in the place of the ])
in the other.
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SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
Syzigy. —Either conjunction or opposition, in refer¬
ence to the orbit of the Moon.
Tables of Houses. —Tables of houses for London,
Edinburgh, Calcutta, and New York will be found in
this Appendix. They are computed for the present
obliquity of the ecliptic.
Taurus. —The second sign of the zodiac, which the
Sun enters about the 20th of April; it is one of the
ancient zodiacal constellations.
Term. —An essential dignity.
Testimony. —Any aspect or position of a significator
in horary questions, bearing on the affair inquired about.
In nativities, the positions of the several planets, as
regards the 0, ]), Asc., and M.C., are testimonies of
good or evil, according to their nature.
Time, Apparent, or Apparent Solar Time, is the
time resulting from an observation of the Sun.
Time, Mean, or Mean Solar Time. —“ The interval
between the times of transit of the Sun over the
meridian on successive days is not always the same;
and consequently the length of the true solar day varies,
the cause of the variation being the unequal progress of
the Sun in the ecliptic. But in order to have an
equable measure of time astronomers suppose a mean
Sun to revolve with the real Sun’s mean or average
motion in the ecliptic; and a clock regulated by this
fictitious Sun shows mean time. The difference
between apparent and mean time is called the equation
of time, the clock being sometimes before the Sun,
i.e. showing noon before the true Sun arrives on the
meridian, and at others after.”— Hind.
Time, Sidereal, is the time shown by a clock regu¬
lated by the fixed stars. The sidereal day is 3“ 56*
shorter than the mean solar day; and hence sidereal
time gains upon mean time by this amount daily.
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Transits. —In judicial astrology, transits are the
passing of the planets over the places of the ©, ]),
Asc. and M.C. at birth. The effects are supposed to
vary according to the strength of the planet in transit.
Transits near the birthday-anniversary are the most
effectual, and it is on these that the force of the Solar
Revolution depends. The transits of Saturn endure for
some weeks, the second transit (after retrogradation)
being usually much more powerful than the first.
Translation of Light. —When one planet separates
from the conjunction or aspect of another, and soon after
forms the conjunction or aspect with a third, it is said
to translate the light of the one it leaves to the third.
In horary astrology, it denotes aid by a person described
by the planet translating the light.
Tredecile. —A difference of longitude of 108°.
Trigons. —These are the four triplicities, viz., the
fiery, T, SI, t j the earthy, 0, itp, Vf ; the airy, n,
ss ; and the watery, $, iTf, and X-
Trine. —The difference of longitude of 120°.
Triplicity. —See Tngons.
Tropical Signs. —Cancer and Capricornus.
Ultra-zodiacal. —Beyond the limits of the Zodiac.
A term occasionally applied to the minor planets, some
of which pass without the zodiac in the course of their
revolution round the Sun.
Under the Sunbeams. —Within 17° of the Sun.
Urania. —A monthly magazine of astrology, mete¬
orology, and physical science was published, in 1880,
by the author, under this title. It is at present
suspended, but will be republished provided a sufficient
number of subscribers put down their names. One of
the minor planets is named Urania.
Yigintile. —T he difference of longitude of 18°.
Virgo. —The sixth sign of the Zodiac, which the Sun
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enters about the 21st of August ; it is one of the ancient
zodiacal constellations.
Void of Course. —When the Sun, Moon, or planets
form no aspect before leaving a sign.
Zenith. —The point directly over head ; it is the pole
of the horizon.
Zenith Distance. —The angular distance of a heavenly
body from the zenith.
Zodiac.—A. zone or belt of the heavens extending 9°
on either side of the Ecliptic, and therefore 18° in
breadth, within which the Sun and all the larger planets
revolve. The Zodiac was divided by the ancients first
into ten signs, Libra being omitted, Virgo and Scorpio
being merged into one. Ptolemy hands down to us the
division of the Zodiac into twelve signs, each measuring
30° along the Ecliptic : Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer,
Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus,
Aquarius, and Pisces. (See the chapter on the Signs
and Constellations of the Zodiac, in the first vol. of the
“ Text-Book of Astrology.”)
Zodiacal Aspects. —Those aspects (angles) measured
in degrees of the Zodiac. See Aspects.
Zodiacal Parallels. —The parallels of declination.
TABLE OF THE ESSENTIAL DIGNITIES OF THE PLANETS,
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APPENDIX.
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Meridian.
Calcutta.
Lat. 22° 33' 25" North.
New York.
Lat. 40° 42' 42" North.
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TABLES OF HOUSES.
8
Eight
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Meridian.
Calcutta.
Lat 22° 3S 1 25" North.
New York.
Lat. 40° 42' 42" North.
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184
SCIENCE OF THE STABS.
TABLES OP HOUSES.
Greenwich.
Lat. 51° 28' 38" North.
Meridian. m
H. m. s.
8 8 44
8 12 54
8 17 3
8 21 11
8 25 19
8 29 25
8 33 31
8 37 36
8 41 41
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8 49 48
8 53 50
8 57 52
9 1 52
9 5 53
9 9 51
9 13 51
9 17 49
9 21 46
9 25 43
9 29 39
9 33 34
9 37 29
9 41 23
9 45 16
9 49 8
9 53 0
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9 18 21
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11 20 23
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13 22 25
14 23 26
15 24 27
16 25 28
17 26 28
18 27 29
Edinburgh.
Lat. 55° 57' 23" North.
3 58 1
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5 15 2
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APPENDIX.
185
TABLES OF HOUSES.
Calcutta.
New Yobk.
Lat. 22° 33' 25" North.
Lat. 40° 42' 42" North.
Meridian.
H. M. S.
8 8 44
8 12 51
8 17 3
8 21 11
8 25 10
8 29 25
8 33 31
8 37 36
8 41 41
8 45 44
8 49 48
8 53 50
8 57 52
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9 5 53
9 9 61
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9 17 49
9 21 46
9 25 43
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13 10 13
14 3 14
14 56 14
15 48 15
16 41 16
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18 25 18
19 17 19
20 8 20
20 59 21
21 50 21
22 41 22
23 32 23
24 23 24
25 14 25
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27 5 25
27 54 26
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19 25 27 24
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21 27 29 25
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186
SCIENCE OF THE STARS.
APPENDIX.
187
TABLES OF HOUSES.
12
Right
Ascen¬
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Meridian.
Calcutta.
Lat. 22° 33' 25" North.
New York.
Lat. 40° 42'42" North.
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APPENDIX.
189
188
SCIENCE OF THE STARS,
APPENDIX.
189
190
SCIENCE OF THE STAES.
APPENDIX.
193
APPENDIX.
195
196
SCIENCE or THE STARS.
TABLES OF HOUSES.
Greenwich.
Lat. 51° 28' 3S" North.
H.
M
B.
20
8
44
2
34
24
20
12
54
3
59
25
20
17
3
5
22
26
20
21
11
6
42
27
20
25
18
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28
20
29
25
9
17
29
20
33
31
10
33
25
20
37
36
11
48
1
20
41
41
13
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20
45
44
14
10
3
20
49
48
15
19
3
20
53
50
16
26
4
20
57
52
17
32
5
21
1
52
18
37
6
21
5
53
19
41
7
21
9
51
20
44
8
21
13
51
21
46
9
21
17
49
22
47
10
21
21
46
23
46
10
21
25
43
24
44
11
21
29
39
25
41
12
21
33
34
26
38
13
21
37
29
27
34
14
21
41
23
28
29
15
21
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16
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19
22
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21 22 8
22 23 10
23 24 11
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Lat. 55° 57' 23" North.
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5 31 20
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APPENDIX.
197
TABLES OF HOUSES.
Calcutta.
Lat. 22° 33' 25" North.
New Yoek.
Lat. 4O’ 42' 42" North.
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APPENDIX.
199
INDEX.
Page.
Aristotle on Earthquakes . 65
Aspects . 88
Aspects. Kepler’s Definition of. 4
Aspects, Major and Minor. 43
Astro-Meteorology, On . 34
Beaconsfield, Earl, Horoscope of . 104
Blindness, On . 81
Bourbons, On the Nativities of the . 97
Cardan’s Aphorisms. 28,54
Casting Horoscopes, On . 68
Children not Beared, On. 72
Comets as Portents. 32
Commanders, Successful. 104
Conjunctions, Great. 29
Conjunctions of Mars and Saturn. 48
Crises in Sickness. 145
Destiny, On . 96
Directions, Primary, On. 112
Dryden and Astrology. 78
Duration of Life, On the Probable . 72
Earthquakes, On . 65
Eclipses and Earthquakes. 55
Eclipses of the Sun and Moon . 24
Employment, Questions Relating to . 147
IXDEX.
Pass.
Epilepsy, On. 83
Fire of London, On the . 21
Flamstead and Astrology . 3
Genethlialogy, On . 65
Horary Astrology, On. 128
Horoscope of Earl Beaconsfleld. 104
Horoscope of Napoleon III. 100
Horoscope of Queen Victoria. 70
Horoscope of the Prince of Wales. 117
Horoscope, On Casting the. 68
Honrs, Planetary, On the . 127
Hours, Planetary, Table of. 129
Houses of the Heavens, On the. 11
Houses of the Planets. 186
Hyleg, On the . 80
Illness, Questions Relating to . 144
Insanity, On . 90
Isandhlwana, Battle of . 25
Joseph’s Cup. 127
Jupiter in Aries . 19
Kepler on Aspects . 4
Kepler on Conjunctions, etc., of the Planets. 86
Kepler’s Practice of Astrology . 66
Map of the Heavens, On Casting the . 10,14
Marriage, On. 107
Marriage, Questions Concerning . 146
Mars in Virgo . 20
Mental Faculties, On the . 86
Meteorological Table of the Sun, etc. 89
Meteorology, On . 34
INDEX.
Piss.
Mundane Astrology, On. 8
Napoleon III., Horoscope of . 100
Nostradamus’s Prediction of the Fire of London.. 21
Phenomena, July, 1881 . 45
Plague of London, On the. 21
Primary Directions, On . 112
Primary Directions in the Nativity of Queen
Victoria . 113
Primary Directions in the Nativity of the Prince
of Wales. 118
Professions, etc., Ruled by the Planets . 134
Queen Victoria’s Horoscope . • 70
Radical Figures, On. 130
Ramesey’s Aphorisms.. 26,27,31
RuleB for Forecasting Earthquakes. 66
Rules for Forecasting Weather. 46
Saturn in Ariel . 18
Ship, On the Fate of a . 137
Signs of the Zodiac, Countries and Cities Ruled
by the various . 16
Solar Eclipse at the Cape, 1879. 25
Solar Revolutions, On. 120
Solar Revolution of Napoleon III., for 1870 . 123
Sunday, Origin of. 130
Symbols, Astrological. 67
Tables of Houses. 176
Teraphin, On the. 126
Uranus in Gemini . 20
Uranus in Capricomus . 20
Vocabulary, Astrological. 160
Voyages, Questions Concerning. 147
Weather, How to Predict the. 44
Winter Solstice, 1881 . 15
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Cloth Uttered, 288 pp., demy 8vo., Price 10s. 6d.,
THE
TEXT-BOOK of ASTROLOGY.
Vol. I.-GENETHLIALOGY.
By ALFRED J. PEARCE,
Author of "The Weather Guide-Book,” etc.
LONDON: COUSINS and CO., 3, YOBK STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.— Chapters I. and II. Introduction —The
History of Astrology.— Fac Simile of Flamstead’s
Figure for the Laying of the Foundation Stone of
Greenwich Observatory.— Chapter III. Planetary
Influence.— Chapter IV. Genethliacal Astrology.—
Chapter V. The Alphabet.— Chapter VI. On
R. A., Dec., &c., of the Heavenly Bodies.— Chap¬
ter VII. On Dividing the Heavens.— Chapter VIII.
On Casting a Figure of the Heavens.— Chapter LX.
Calculation of Nativities. Examples: Nativities of
H.R.H. Princess Louise, Goethe, the late Prince
Consort, &c.
BOOK II.— Chapter I. Signs and Constellations of
the Zodiac.— Chapter II. The Sun.— Chapter III.
The Moon.— Chapter IV. Mercury.— Chapter
V. Venus.— Chapter VI. Mars.— Chapter VII.
• Jupiter.— Chapter VIII. Saturn.— Chapter IX.
Uranus.— Chapter X. Neptune.— Chapter XI.
Eminent Fixed Stars.
ADVERTISEMENT.
BOOK III.— Chapter I. On Forming a General
Judgment on a Nativity.— Chapter II. Constitu¬
tion and Temperament.— Chapter III. The Min d
and Disposition.— Chapter IV. The Fortune of
Wealth and Bank.— Chapter V. The Quality of
Employment.— Chapter VI. Marriage.— Chapter
VII. Children. — Chapter VIII. Friends and
Enemies.— Chapter IX. Travelling.— Chapter X.
The Kind of Death. (In this book scores of times of
birth are given in illustration of various points.)
'BOOK IV.— Chapter I. On Primary Directions.—
Chapters II., III., IV., and V. Buies and Ex¬
amples of Computing Directions.— Chapter VI. On
Equating Arcs of Direction.— Chapter VII. On
Bectifying a Nativity. Examples: Nativities of the
late Prince Consort and Napoleon I.— Chapter VIII.
On Secondary Directions, Transits, &c. —Chapter
IX. On the Effects of Primary Directions. Appendix.
Useful Formulae. Tables of the Poles of the
“Houses,” of Declination, Bight Ascension, of
“ Houses ” for London and Liverpool, and of Ascen¬
sional Difference for the latitude of London.
The “ Athenaeum ,” May 3rd, 1879, says :—“The ‘Text
Book ’ is not at all a catchpenny tract; it is seriously
written, and may be perused with advantage by anyone
interested in astrology, provided he will maintain a
cool judgment. The author, while contending for the
dignity of his science, warns his readers against
illiterate adventurers who pretend to tell fortunes by
its means, and his work shows that its practice requires
some degree of education and of labour, for its methods
are founded on astronomical calculations.... Mr. Pearce
deals with conspicuous examples—kings, queens, and
emperors, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Louise—and this we take to be a proper mode
of dealing with a scientific subject in the present con¬
ditions of society.”
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